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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... goals for which they were struggling were too far - reaching to be won through prayer , persuasion , or appeals to the lib- eral conscience . McDew noted the role of the civil rights movement in promoting " a full - scale social ...
... goals to replace those that previously had guided the civil rights movement . Concluding that they could not depend on support from the federal government or from north- ern white liberals , staff members debated whether they could ...
... goals . SNCC's staff included adherents of each of the two major trends , but by 1968 both factions increasingly doubted whether SNCC would remain the principal vehicle to reach their goals . Party headquarters , 1966 LOWNDES CO ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |