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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... move- ment heard reports of the African independence struggle when attending an ecumenical religious conference held in Athens , Ohio , a few weeks be- fore the initial Greensboro sit - in . A scholar at the conference noted that ...
... move- ment included many non - SNCC activists , but there was no other group of individuals who were as uniformly ... moved only gradually from its role as a gathering point for lead- ers of localized student movements to a role as an ...
... move- ment were " crippled by guilt , " and this guilt forced them to embrace " blackness . " Although such identification might be a first step toward " true integration , " it was necessary to " move on to a white nationalism " ; that ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |