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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... federal complic- ity in southern racial oppression . In May 1962 , for example , following the conviction of Bob Moses and Charles McDew on charges of disorderly conduct during the McComb protests , SNCC suggested that Attorney General ...
... federal government . " SNCC workers recognized that the federal government was not likely to respond to many of their appeals for assistance , yet they also knew that their requests would dramatize the situation and that such help was ...
... federal policy regarding protection of civil rights workers . Instead , the federal government reacted by focusing its resources solely on the Philadelphia incident . President Johnson authorized the use of 200 navy men in the search ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |