In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New Introduction and Epilogue by the AuthorHarvard University Press, 1995 M04 3 - 384 pages With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC’s evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white oppression. |
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... programs and figured in efforts to prevent outbreaks of racial violence during the late 1960s. Joseph McNeil joined the Air Force after graduation and in 1966, while engaged in bombing missions over North Vietnam, publicly criticized ...
... programs of their own . " The students were willing to meet " on the basis of equality , but were intolerant of anything that smacked of manipulation or domination . " Baker's views coincided with those of the black students . " She was ...
... programs , Constance Curry , was particularly helpful in SNCC's early months , offering the use of NSA equipment and facilities in Atlanta at a time when SNCC had few resources of its own . Despite such backing , SNCC would probably not ...
... programs with Harry Belafonte , a personal friend of the Kennedys who was earlier involved in the discussions with Justice Department officials regarding voter registration . One of the members of the delegation was former Howard ...
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Contents
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Radical Cadre in McComb | 45 |
The Albany Movement | 56 |
Sustaining the Struggle | 66 |
Breaking New Ground | 153 |
The New Left | 175 |
Racial Separatism | 191 |
Part Three Falling Apart | 213 |
Black Power | 215 |
Internal Conflicts | 229 |
White Repression | 244 |
Seeking New Allies | 265 |
March on Washington | 83 |
Planning for Confrontation | 96 |
Mississippi Challenge | 111 |
Part Two Looking Inward | 131 |
Waveland Retreat | 133 |
Decline of Black Radicalism | 287 |
Epilogue | 305 |
Notes | 307 |
Index | 347 |