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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... registration work . They recognized that this was an im- portant activity , since the paucity of black voters , especially in the deep South , prevented blacks from acquiring the political power necessary to achieve civil rights goals ...
... registration of disenfranchised southern blacks . To carry out the mass registration , Jones proposed a dramatic expansion of the student movement to include over a hundred thousand students.24 The SNCC delegation left the meeting ...
... registration forms . Nonetheless , these initial attempts to register led residents in two nearby rural counties , Amite and Walthall , to ask Moses to establish voter registration schools in their areas . Although recog- nizing that ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |