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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... become its executive secretary , replacing Ed King , who re- turned to college . Someone less dedicated than Forman might have regretted the deci- sion to join SNCC after encountering the conditions at the headquarters . He described ...
... become a political organization with skilled , full- time , politically sophisticated personnel - albeit with a loose and flexible structure . Just before the conference , SNCC had taken a step toward stabil- ity and increased ...
... become an ideal community within an injust and increasingly hostile world . SNCC had been a community in which black and white activists could rid themselves of many of the racial prejudices that infected American society , yet most of ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |