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In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
Clayborne Carson
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Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTV; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JHBD; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674447271
SKU
V9780674447271
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99-22
About Clayborne Carson
Clayborne Carson is Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project.
Reviews for In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
In Clayborne Carson SNCC has at last found a scholar capable of probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both sympathetic and prudently critical ... Students of social protest will be deeply in the author's debt for years to come.
Francis M. Wilnoit American Historical Review To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book. ... Read more
Francis M. Wilnoit American Historical Review To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book. ... Read more