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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... SNCC workers and the southern blacks with whom they worked . By the mid - 1960s , however , SNCC workers began to question not only the cautiousness of liberals but also the conventional strategies of change in American society . They ...
... SNCC but rather to show my deep respect for those who were willing to assume the risks of living experimentally . If ... workers rarely possessed the bureaucratic habits on which historians depend . The focus of my concern was SNCC's ...
... SNCC workers epitomized the militant mood of black people , particularly those in the most racially re- pressive regions of the Black Belt , who were suddenly released from the psy- chological burdens of cultural and political ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |