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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... spring and summer of 1961, a small group of activists left their campuses and careers to become full-time SNCC staff members. With few resources other than their commitment, creativity, and youthful energy, these SNCC workers led a ...
... spring of 1972 , the work has un- dergone many transformations . Helpful suggestions regarding the original dissertation , titled " Toward Freedom and Community : The Evolution of Ideas in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
... spring and summer of 1961 , a small group of activists left their campuses and careers to become full - time SNCC staff members . With few resources other than their commitment , creativity , and youth- ful energy , these SNCC workers ...
... spring of 1960 , it offered an almost irresist- ible model for social action . Never again during the decade would the proportion of students active in protest equal the level reached at southern black colleges during the pe- riod from ...
... spring of 1962. John Orbell found that protest participation was strongly influenced by situational factors , such as the relative quality and type of school , the degree of urbanization , and the proportion of blacks in the college ...
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 |