The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?”
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11078809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard L Hughes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Oral History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ohr.2006.33.2.1 |
| PMID | 17115517 |
| OpenAlex | W1965066804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading abortion clinics with Operation Rescue. The Nolens served prison sentences for direct action protests that they believe stemmed from the same commitment to Christianity and social justice as the civil rights movements. Despite its relationship to political and cultural conservatism, the anti-abortion movement since Roe v. Wade (1973) was also a product of the progressive social movements of the turbulent sixties. Utilizing oral history interviews and organizational literature, the article explores the historical context of the anti-abortion movement, specifically how the lengthy struggle for racial justice shaped the rhetoric, tactics, and ideology of the anti-abortion activists. Even after political conservatives dominated the movement in the 1980s, the successes and failures of the sixties provided a cultural lens through which grassroots anti-abortion activists forged what was arguably the largest movement of civil disobedience in American history
Civil disobedience · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Grassroots · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |