In StruggleHarvard 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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... American expatriates convinced them that SNCC should establish permanent ties with Africans . While in Zambia for that nation's independence ceremonies , they talked with African revolutionaries who , according to their subsequent ...
... American struggle into an international movement against Western imperialism and capital- ism . SNCC's ambitious ventures into foreign affairs were part of a gradual movement away from the organization's ideological roots in American ...
... American blacks looked to the Cuban revolution and to Che Guevara for inspiration . Dur- ing the next few days Carmichael made numerous similar statements to re- porters in an obvious effort to convince his hosts that Afro - Americans ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |