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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... University in Chicago Forman majored in management and was elected president of the student body and head of a delegation to the 1956 NSA convention . The next year Forman began graduate work in African affairs at Boston University . As ...
Clayborne Carson. SNCC supporters at Texas Southern University in Houston , like those in Nashville , faced strong opposition from university officials , who forbade the " Friends of SNCC " chapter from meeting on campus and refused to ...
... University , 1968 ) , pp . 70-72 . A con- flicting account of the meeting at the Statler Hotel is provided by Closter B. Current , NAACP administrator ( letter to author , Jan. 10 , 1977 ) : “ John Lewis as I recall it was reasonable ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |