In Struggle by Clayborne Carson
With its radical ideology and tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement in the 60s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCCs evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white oppression.
Not only an important contribution to the history of the struggle for civil rights; it also enlarges our general understanding of contemporary politics and culture-- Abigail Thernstrom * New Republic *
To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book. -- James Polk * Newsday *
This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements… This is a well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and practices. -- Abraham Holtzman * American Political Science Review *
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. -- James Polk * Newsday *
This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements… This is a well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and practices. -- Abraham Holtzman * American Political Science Review *
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 *
Clayborne Carson is Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674447271 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674447271 |
| Title | In Struggle |
| Author | Clayborne Carson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1995-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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