In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

Author: Carson, ClayborneBrand: Harvard University PressEdition: Second PrintingFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 384Release Date: 03-04-1995Details: Product Description 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.At its birth, SNCC was composed of black college students who shared an ideology of moral radicalism. This ideology, with its emphasis on nonviolence, challenged Southern segregation. SNCC students were the earliest civil rights fighters of the Second Reconstruction. They conducted sit-ins at lunch counters, spearheaded the freedom rides, and organized voter registration, which shook white complacency and awakened black politi