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It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them

Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5842762
AutoresFredrick C Harris (University of Rochester, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume5
Fascículo1
Páginas19-43
Data de publicação2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial movement studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14742830600621159
OpenAlexW2152095576
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas56
Referências citadas49

This paper examines the impact that collective memories of key events related to the civil rights movement had on black political activism during the 1960s. It proposes a theory that examines the effects of collective memory on collective action by considering how events and collective memories are appropriated by political entrepreneurs for collective action. Examining four events through a rare opinion survey of blacks taken in 1966, the analysis specifies a framework that illustrates how events evolve into collective memories and how collective memories are appropriated for collective action as time passes from the original event. Qualitative materials from historical accounts, including autobiographies, biographies, and oral histories, are used to make inferences about the meaning of events to political actors. The analysis shows that one event among the four, the murder of Emmett Till, had a stronger residual effect on black activism than the other events. The findings suggest that scholarship on the movement may have underestimated the impact of Till's murder on the generation of black insurgency in the 1950s

Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Civil rights · Collective action · Collective memory · Criminology · Law and economics · Movement (music) · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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