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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... 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 frontal attack ...
... 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 led a ...
... summer , when 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 ...
... summer . 14 The establishment of a functioning organization was made possible when Baker offered SNCC a corner of the SCLC headquarters in Atlanta for use as an office and made available to the students SCLC's mailing facilities . Baker ...
... summer had it not been for the energy and skills of Baker and Stembridge . Whereas SNCC appeared to outsiders and even to many black student leaders to be merely a clearinghouse for the exchange of information about localized protest ...
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 |