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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... role as a gathering point for lead- ers of localized student movements to a role as an active stimulus of mass protest in the deep South . Students who joined SNCC's staff retained their generalized distrust of existing institutions and ...
... role in future black struggles . Howard Zinn argued that SNCC was " best suited to be a relatively small , mobile , striking force , guerilla fighters in the field of social change , who will get into the heart of where problems are ...
... roles and in the process acquiring the appellation of being " high on freedom . " Other staff members , determined to play a role in the changing southern struggle , accepted the need for local black leadership but still saw themselves ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |