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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... Sherrod , who was twenty - two , had let sit - in protests in Richmond , Virginia . Sherrod , the more articulate of the two , was also director of SNCC's southwest Georgia voter registration project , in which capacity he was able to ...
... Sherrod , " even the hypocrisy " of the black church bore the “ seeds of the ultimate victory of Truth . " Rather than attempting to " beat the box , " Sherrod advised , one must accept the people " where they are . ' Sherrod's own ...
... Sherrod described one such leader in 1961 : " Because of [ D. U. Pullum's ] efforts to vote and encourage others to do the same , he was beaten , robbed , and his machinery burned ... He is the personification of resistance to the ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |