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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... Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) . SNCC workers , however , were typically less willing than representatives of other civil rights groups to impose their ideas on local black leaders or to restrain southern 2 INTRODUCTION.
... representatives of the stu- dent movement appeared before the platform committee of the Demo- cratic National Convention , they insisted that all Americans must " enjoy the full promise of our democratic heritage " in order to ensure ...
... representative , Glenn Smiley , organized a workshop on nonviolence for the Nashville Christian Leadership Council , which was held in March 1958 . After enrolling as a theology student , Lawson opened a similar workshop at Vanderbilt ...
... representatives were given an opportunity to address members of the platform committees of each party , and their statements revealed the increasing concern of black stu- dent leaders with issues beyond desegregation . At the Democratic ...
... representatives at both conventions did not allow for much impact ; few newspapers even noted their appear- ances . Nonetheless , their statements indicated the beginning of a transfor- mation of SNCC into an organization capable of ...
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 |