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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... organization expanding its power and moving toward becoming a mass organization , ” rather than allowing it to remain " a limited cadre of organizers who moved around instigating protests , and who might catalyze the emergence of [ a ...
... Organization and Political Education ( SCOPE ) project . Moreover , at a time when SNCC workers were debating whether to assume the risks of formally opposing the Vietnam War , King's occasional statements against the war probably ...
... organization . As in the past , SNCC expanded the boundaries of American political dialogue and assumed the risks inevitably borne by the most vigorous proponents of political dissent and innovation . Their ingrained determination to ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |