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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... responsibility and that nonviolent direct action alone is strong enough to enable all of America to understand the responsibility she must assume . " The invitation noted the national and international implications of the nonviolent ...
... responsibility to other people as well as to yourself . " The decision to join SNCC , he concluded , indicated an ac- ceptance of " a responsibility to the many people operating within the orga- nizational framework ” and an awareness ...
... responsible for divisiveness between black militant groups . There is considerable evidence that the FBI succeeded in creating distrust among black militants , most notably by provoking deadly clashes between mem- bers of the BPP and ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |