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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... role in bringing hundreds of northern students to Mississippi , the main bastion of southern segregation , for a decisive battle over the right of blacks to vote . The second stage of SNCC's development began after the defeat of an ...
... roles and lived in ways that I found exciting and exemplary . Though I resisted the inclination to join SNCC's staff , I soon became involved in " the movement . " Deciding to leave the relative racial isolation of New Mexico , I ...
... of SNCC , in which he never played a leadership role . After serving as student body president at North Carolina A. & T. , Blair attended law school for a year , worked as a teacher in the Job Corps , and 16 COMING TOGETHER.
... roles to intensify the social struggle . Some student leaders sensed the need for a protest organization to con- solidate their newly won influence . They wanted an organization that would expand black militancy rather than restrain or ...
... role of SCLC might have signaled the reassertion of control over the southern black struggle by Martin Luther King ... roles suddenly thrust upon them . As a product of a southern black college , Shaw University in Raleigh , she was ...
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 |