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In Struggle - SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New Introduction and Epilogue by the Author (Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition)
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In Struggle - SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New Introduction and Epilogue by the Author (Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition)
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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 political consciousness. In the process, Clayborne
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transcripts of meetings, unpublished position papers, and recently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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