To the Mountaintop by Stewart Burns

Author:Stewart Burns
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

SHORTLY AFTER THE HISTORIC election SNCC held a retreat in Waveland, Mississippi. In a turbulent atmosphere belied by the Gulf of Mexico’s calm waters, weary activists grappled with pressing internal conflicts, particularly between blacks and whites (also between men and women), and charted new directions. Anger festering over summer and fall now burst its seams. Many black organizers, especially from poorer families, were steamed that the army of white college students, despite noble intentions, had sometimes disrespected and pushed aside native blacks, dampening their budding somebodiness. Betrayal in Atlantic City combined with the white students’ insensitivity had led SNCC’s black majority to deeply question its interracial basis. The brave white students had served their purpose as cannon fodder, but the price might have been too steep. To survive and grow, many came to feel, the movement had to get blacker.

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