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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... radical cadre within a southern black community removed from the mainstream of American life . Late in the summer of 1961 they established a project in McComb , Mississippi , where they were joined by northern black students as well as ...
... radical or rev- olutionary ideas , they saw their methods of achieving social change as differing dramatically from those of any other reform organization . While retaining some of the liberal and Christian beliefs , they had bro- ken ...
... radical groups in the United States and Third World revolutionary movements abroad . Reacting to the rapid decline in white support , SNCC attempted to transform the Afro - American struggle into an international movement against ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |