Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights

This thesis examines the experience of personal breakdown in the American Civil Rights Movement. It proposes that breakdown was triggered in individuals by the practice of nonviolence and contends that breakdown precipitated the Movement's shift away from nonviolence toward the more self-protective tactic of black power.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Southern Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Andersen, Danielle

Contributors dc:contributor

• Zandria Robinson
• Andy Harper
• Ted Ownby

• Breakdown
• Civil Rights
• Nonviolence
• Violence
• American Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/35

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1034