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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... vote . The second stage of SNCC's development began after the defeat of an attempt by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party ( MFDP ) to unseat the regular all - white delegation to the Democratic National Convention in August 1964 ...
... voted to establish a tem- porary Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee . It would have no of- ficial ties but would cooperate with all civil rights organizations . SNCC was established on the understanding that its permanent status ...
... voted to hire a temporary office worker to sustain the organization during the 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 ...
... grant self - government for the District of Co- lumbia , and increase federal protection for blacks seeking to vote or exer- cise their civil rights.16 The few minutes allotted to SNCC representatives at both conventions 26 COMING TOGETHER.
... vote . SNCC also supported the proposal of its affili- ate , the Nonviolent Action Group ( NAG ) at Howard University , that the President and Congress aid blacks in Tennessee and cancel government contracts with firms which ...
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 |