Clayborne Carson’s In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960’s gives detailed information and factual accounts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee also knows as (SNCC) for short. Known as one of the most influential and effective civil rights organizations in the 60’s. In Struggle tells the story SNCC’s story from its beginning in 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina wheere four black college students planned to protest segregation by a “sit-in” at Woolworth lunch counter. Carson explores how the SNCC was able to raise a lot of attention in the black community by bringing light to long avoided racial tensions. Because of this the SNCC stimulated blacks through the country and the methods used serve as a model for future activists. Carson explores the SNCC’s evolution which went through three major stages, and describes how each stage impacted the SNCC and how they played a very important role in the civil rights movement. …show more content…
The organization grew into a big organization with many followers in the North who were able to raise money for the work the SNCC was doing in the southern states. The group was initilay funded by $800 Grant (SCLC) Full time employees were paid $10 a week. The SNCC focuse on mobilizing the black community to bring social injustice publicly apparent to force the government to take action. SNCC held Sit ins, black would go to racialy segregated lunch counters to protest jim crow laws. They would also go racialy segregated public libraries, public parks, movie theaters, and swimming pools. All of these locations were strictly white and funded by taxes, blacks were not allowed. The piblics respons was to not deal with the situiaon or try to bring about chang they simply suggested to close theses establishments down rather than