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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... conference , as well as over 80 observers from northern colleges and sympathetic organizations . Unlike the Raleigh conference , which oc- curred during a period of extensive protest activity , the conference in At- lanta attracted only ...
... conference , most black students did not accept even moderately socialist ideas . Bayard Rustin , a leader of the League for Industrial Democracy and King's adviser , was first invited to address the conference and then the invitation ...
... conference . He added that Powell had " never talked about independent politics " but instead was " trying to get people together under the Democratic party . " Forman later proposed that SNCC call its own national conference on the ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |