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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 77
... racial discord and discontent broke through a facade of accommodation, a series of isolated acts of resistance ignited the modern African-American freedom struggle. Immersed in sustained grass-roots efforts to overcome racial oppression ...
... Racial Separatism 191 153 Part Three . Falling Apart 14. Black Power 215 15. Internal Conflicts 229 16. White Repression 244 17. Seeking New Allies 265 18. Decline of Black Radicalism 287 Epilogue 305 Notes 307 Index 347 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
... racial discord and discontent broke through a facade of accommodation , a series of isolated acts of resistance ignited the modern African - American freedom struggle . Immersed in sustained grass - roots efforts to overcome racial ...
... racial militancy . SNCC's success in mobi- lizing southern black communities encouraged movements elsewhere . The forms of racial consciousness that arose within SNCC during the mid - 1960s were archetypes for the ideas that would later ...
... 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 the antiwar position taken by Stokely Carmichael as ...
Contents
1 | |
7 | |
9 | |
19 | |
31 | |
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 |