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Author Luders, Joseph E.

Title The civil rights movement and the logic of social change / Joseph E. Luders
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
Contents 1. The logic of social movement outcomes -- 2. Civil rights and reactive countermobilization -- 3. The calculus of compromise -- 4. Local struggles -- 5. Patterns of regional change -- 6. Federal responses to civil rights mobilization -- 7. Conclusion
Summary This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society. Joseph Luders focuses on the targets of protests and affected bystanders, their interests, and their responses to explain the diverse outcomes of social movements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index
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Subject Civil rights movements -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Protest movements -- United States.
Social change -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Politics and government
Protest movements
Race relations
Social change
Social conditions
Soziale Bewegung
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Sozialer Wandel
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520
United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140470
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
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