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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... early 1950s he had chosen to go to prison rather than serve in the military during the Korean War . After being paroled to the Methodist Board of Missions , he spent three years as a missionary in India , where he studied Mahatma ...
... Early in April about 150 stu- dents chained and padlocked entrances to a university building , while hun- dreds of other students expressed their dissatisfaction by sitting down on a campus street . Soon after this protest , Houston ...
... early as 1964 SNCC had criticized FBI director J. Edgar Hoover for directing public attention away from the issue of black oppression in the South by suggesting that Communists had infiltrated the civil rights movement . Hoover ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |