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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... civil rights goals were the same as those of the administration . They were dismayed that federal officials appeared willing to attenuate their civil rights efforts in order to preserve southern political support and states ' rights ...
... civil rights militants by attempting to avoid crises in order to achieve civil rights goals at its own pace and in its own way . When SNCC workers demanded a firm stand against southern segrega- tionist officials , administration ...
... civil rights movement took steps to unify black civil rights leadership and to slow the turn toward militancy . Under the direction of philanthropist Stephen Currier of the Taconic Foundation , a United Civil Rights Leadership Council ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |