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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"sit-ins"”.
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“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins
<p>This thesis examines the sit-in demonstrations that used direct action and civil disobedience to target segregation at store lunch counters. The Nashville demonstrations were the last sit-in protests to occur that are discussed in this thesis, which also examines the protests in Wichita and …
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The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921
… In the mind of the modern observer, the phrase inspires images of peace signs, love beads, sit-ins, and Kent State. Student activism, however, has not always been true to this imagery. The tradition of student groups devoted to political, ideological ends extends back to the early years of the …
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Spelmanite Soldiers
<p>Inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960, students from Atlanta colleges followed suit and assembled a civil rights movement to combat the legalized segregation in the city of Atlanta. “Spelmanite Soldiers” tells the story of the brave women behind the movement that meticulously organized …
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A spatial history of protest in Boston
… geocode, and map 421 protests, rallies, sit ins, and marches that took place in the Boston area between 1960 and 1995. In addition to identifying the location of protest events, this study classifies and analyzes protest space typologies. The analysis reveals the durability of university …
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Distributed denial of service actions and the challenge of civil disobedience on the Internet
… the realm of street marches, occupations, and sit-ins? This thesis grounds activist DDOS historically, focusing on early deployments of the tactic as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, both in theory and in practice. Through that examination, as well as tool design and …
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Networked Social Movements: A Critical Interrogation of Pro and Anti-Immigration Twitter Discourse in India and the USA
… dissent and support for Statist brutalities against dissidents; and engaged in historical revisionism in favour of majoritised groups, re-historicising to discursively establish masculinist hindu-nationalism in the Indian context and white supremacism in the US context. Whereas, the …
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… for rioting, and all damage suits against the city were dismissed. By year-end, the local newspapers omitted all mention of the riot, occupation, and trial in their wrap-ups of the year's events. This thesis uses the lens of the Coffeyville riot to argue that African American activism …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
… space through occupations of plazas and roads, sit-ins, blockades, and other measures. As a theoretical construct, space claiming brings together tactics of collective action and meanings of public spaces, and looks at the consequences of their interaction. This dissertation is based on …
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Geschichtsrevisionismus als Instrument der „Neuen Rechten“ am Beispiel der 68er-Bewegung
… einige ihrer prominenten Mitstreiter von einst durch ein ungewöhnliches Bekenntnis von sich Reden: sie entpuppten sich als Anhänger oder Parteigänger der extremen Rechten. 40 Jahre nach der Revolte stehen sich die Protagonisten in zwei antagonistischen Gruppen gegenüber, die um die …
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Carceral civil society: Citizenship and communities in a U.S. prison
… of dehumanization through policies of the institution and actions by corrections staff. From the bottom-up, interpersonal violence takes the form of either physical violence or a culture of mistrust created by a snitch environment. These forces work to break existing communities and hinder …
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Black Women and Student Activism at Fayetteville State, 1960-1972
… women who attended Fayetteville State University from 1960-1972 with particular attention paid to their experiences as organizers, activists, and students during the Sit-In and Black Campus Movements. I asked the following research questions: (1) In what ways did Black women participate in …
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Deliver Me From The Days Of Old: Rock And Roll, Youth Culture, And The Civil Rights Movement
… always presented as an undisputed success in mainstream culture and educational curricula, but scholars continue to question whether the widespread protests against racial segregation and inequality that swept the nation in the 1950s and 1960s led to meaningful economic, or social change. These …