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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... continued its journey , white men in cars followed and forced the bus to stop outside of Anniston . The pursuers then hurled a smoke bomb inside , and the freedom riders fled the vehicle into the hands of the waiting group of angry ...
... continued to dominate the organization , resisting the rapid imposition of organizational constraints . Avoiding the extremes of the two factions , Cobb recognized the dilemma facing SNCC idealists when he wrote that living with others ...
... continued police surveillance and harassment after the spring of 1967 , others were being recruited as employees of a federal Community Action Program ( CAP ) funded by the OEO and designed to prevent racial violence in the Houston area ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |