Cleveland Sellers
Autor von The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC
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According to Sellers, the push to develop black consciousness eventually gave way to Stokely Carmichael’s black power movement (pg. 167). This effectively rallied those frustrated with more traditional methods of protest, but also signaled the eventual split of SNCC into those who wanted to continue using established techniques and the more radical members. Sellers argues, “Black Power thrust SNCC to the forefront of the struggle for black liberation. Although SCLC, CORE, the NAACP and the Urban League continued to have prestige, SNCC was the premiere organization” (pg. 183). Simultaneously, SNCC members “considered themselves part of an emerging Third World coalition of revolutionaries who were anticapitalist, antiimperialist and antiracist” (pg. 188). Even while developing this consciousness, a protest in Orangeburg, SC in which the police fired on unarmed demonstrators lead to Sellers’ own arrest and, eventually, the end of SNCC through continued factionalism. Sellers gradually became aware that he, and others involved in various civil rights organizations, were under observation and subject to disinformation campaigns from the federal government as part of the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation (pg. 257). Even with all of these difficulties, Sellers concluded in his afterword, “I am encouraged by a revival of interest among SNCC members in writing the SNCC story. The accomplishments during that period were great and there is still much to be told” (pg. 277).… (mehr)