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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... struggle in the deep South . Although many SNCC workers continued to be involved in periodic desegregation protests , most concentrated on expand- ing the voter registration projects . Already a singularly militant group , SNCC workers ...
... struggling for a sense of dignity . " Forman recognized the difficulty of charting a course for the southern struggle . His own exhaustion as a result of the previous summer's work had weakened his health , necessitating his taking a ...
... struggle . Machismo , apoca- lyptic imagery , and ideological competition not only failed to secure much power but also made the black freedom struggle more vulnerable to external repression . SNCC's staff scattered like seeds in the ...
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Limited preview - 1995 |