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A Review

“A Review Of In Struggle”

In Struggle:SNCC and the Black Awakening if the 1960’s by Clayborne
Carson Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1981. 359 pp. $22.00


Clayborne Carson’s In Struggle is a study of the rise of the Student Non-violent movement in the United States during the Civil Rights movement. Carson writes an insiders account of the student movement focussing on the activities that led to the construction of the organization and its’ ultimate demise. He focus throughout the accounts the ways the organization changed. SNCC’s involvement in changing the social structure of the south was a main point in the book and is carefully expressed with the acounts of the activists involved. He states this clearly in the epilogue by saying “SNCC itself was simply a ‘band of sisters and brothers’ who were for a brief historical moment, at the center of a major social movement. …[I]ts legacy consits of the lessons learned in ongoing struggles that did...

Posted by: Chad Boger

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