ABSTRACT
This chapter analysis the organizational structure, resource base, leadership and membership, ideology, tactics, and important activities of the major and vanguard social movement organizations. These are the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society and its Weatherman offshoot, and the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The chapter also analysis the organization tactics, and effectiveness of the social control agencies that were opposed to the movements. It assesses the mass media, in particular television, played in the movements' rise and decline, as well as the complex links between the movements and the counterculture or youth culture of the middle and late sixties and early seventies. SNCC field workers tended to be college graduates or college dropouts from a working-class, southern black background. Mobe's role in the antiwar movement was largely one of coordinating the antiwar activities of numerous groups for a concerted thrust.
