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The common view is that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was originally idealistic nonviolent and committed to integration and that it became disillusioned, nationalistic, and sympathetic to armed struggle. Using evidence from SNCC records, this essay shows that the SNCC of 1965 was composed of many people who were not in SNCC in 1960. Hence the personnel changed rather than the individuals.
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Why is it important?
It suggests that social movements acquire new members as they radicalize rather than having existing members change their minds.
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This page is a summary of: SNCCs, August 2012, University Press of Florida,
DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813041513.003.0005.
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