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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... position on the matter . Carmi- chael insisted at an Executive Committee meeting in late 1963 that , be- cause HUAC's actual purpose was not to find communists but to render the organizations under investigation ineffective , SNCC ...
... position paper that ignored the insubordination issue and instead sought to place SNCC's leaders on the defensive by at- tacking the presence of whites in the organization . They did not expect their blatant challenge to the authority ...
... position paper at the March staff meeting , their intention was more to embarrass SNCC's lead- ers than to convert them . They had already obscured their ideological con- cerns through their insubordination . Expecting strong opposition ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |