Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in Southern Studies
First Advisor
Zandria Robinson
Second Advisor
Andy Harper
Third Advisor
Ted Ownby
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Andersen, Danielle, "Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 35.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/35