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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... leaders attempted to halt them before equal rights are assured , the demonstrations would merely continue without leadership . " Lewis , who had been arrested twenty - four times during his career in the civil rights movement ...
... leaders ignored signs that Carmichael's political perspective was different from their own , even when Carmichael criticized the BPP's ties with the Peace and Freedom Party . " He told us that many people ... didn't want him to speak in ...
... leaders who refused to take political risks on behalf of civil rights reform . Most SNCC activists were less committed than King to Christian - Gandhian precepts , but nonviolent direct action remained SNCC's most effective stimulus for ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |