In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Tema 2Harvard University Press, 1981 - 359 páginas 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 even-handed 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 repression. 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 political consciousness. In the process, Carson shows, SNCC changed from a group that endorsed white middle-class values to one that questioned the basic assumptions of liberal ideology and raised the fist for black power. Indeed, SNCC's radical and penetrating analysis of the American power structure reached beyond the black community to help spark wider social protests of the 1960s, such as the anti-Vietnam War movement. Carson's history of SNCC goes behind the scene to determine why the group's ideological evolution was accompanied by bitter power struggles within the organization. Using interviews, transcripts of meetings, unpublished position papers, and recently released FBI documents, he reveals how a radical group is subject to enormous, often divisive pressures as it fights the difficult battle for social change. |
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... believed that the high degree of white resistance in Missis- sippi made the use of whites counterproductive . A spring 1963 SNCC re- port noted that it was " too dangerous for whites to participate in the project in Mississippi - too ...
... believed that the high degree of white resistance in Missis- sippi made the use of whites counterproductive . A spring 1963 SNCC re- port noted that it was " too dangerous for whites to participate in the project in Mississippi - too ...
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... believed that SNCC would be less vulnerable with fewer undisciplined staff members . They believed that SNCC should not specifically exclude Communists but that it should make pragmatic judgments about the nega- tive consequences of any ...
... believed that SNCC would be less vulnerable with fewer undisciplined staff members . They believed that SNCC should not specifically exclude Communists but that it should make pragmatic judgments about the nega- tive consequences of any ...
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... believed that Ruby Doris Robinson could fulfill this role , but she had become debilitated with a rare form of cancer that would end her life in a few months . Other SNCC veterans such as Forman were exhausted by the demands placed on ...
... believed that Ruby Doris Robinson could fulfill this role , but she had become debilitated with a rare form of cancer that would end her life in a few months . Other SNCC veterans such as Forman were exhausted by the demands placed on ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Part One Coming Together | 7 |
Sitins | 9 |
Derechos de autor | |
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New ... Clayborne Carson Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
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