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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... spring , six offices had been opened in Mississippi , with a staff of twenty black field secretaries . Only three were from outside the state - Moses , Bevel , and Charles Cobb , son of a Spring- field , Massachusetts , Congregational ...
... spring of 1965. Sellers re- called that he and several other staff members , including Carmichael , Ivanhoe Donaldson , and H. Rap Brown , dominated an informal debate with Casey Hayden and others identified as floaters . Sellers knew ...
... spring prompted a federal inquiry that soon focused on the involvement of SNCC workers in anti - poverty programs . The Houston example reveals even more clearly the double - edged response to black militancy that oc- curred in many ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |