An "Oasis of Freedom" in a "Closed Society
The Development of Tougaloo College as a Free Space in Mississippi's Civil Rights Movement, 1960 to 19641
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5000808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M R Lowe (0000-0001-5046-7213) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 486-520 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2007.00321.x |
| OpenAlex | W1494374960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
Based on archival research and in-depth interviews, this study explores how Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi developed into a pivotal movement center in Mississippi's civil rights movement and the ways in which Tougaloo's faculty and administrators as organic intellectuals helped to create, maintain, and augment such a free space and the social networks who utilized it. The school served as an interracial "safe haven" for those involved in and sympathetic to the civil rights movement who in turn, helped to cultivate networks, ideas, and strategies that contributed to the movement in meaningful ways. The school's heritage, its sources of financial support, and its relative physical isolation allowed Tougaloo College to challenge Mississippi's closed society from within
Aesthetics · Civil rights · Civil society · Economics · Freedom of movement · Isolation (microbiology · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Safe haven · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · American Political and Social Dynamics · Race, History, and American Society · Law · Public Administration
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Education Under Siege
Emotion Work in High-Risk Social Movements
Free Spaces, Collective Identity, and the Persistence of U.S. White Power Activism
How Long? How Long
Social Movements and Networks
The Sociology of Conversion
Critical Social Research and the Academy
The Legacy of Ernst Borinski
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The From Slavery to Freedom Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium, September 19-20, 1997
The Survival of The Women's Movement
Mobilizing in Black Boxes
Social Movement Continuity
Social Networks and Social Movements
Intellectuals and the Working Class
Black Southern Student Sit-in Movement
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Ecologies of Social Movements
Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism
Religion as Opposition
Free spaces' in collective action
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |