The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: Movement Organizations, Social Networks, and News Media in the 1960 Sit-Ins
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American South in the spring of 1960 transformed the struggle for racial equality. Sociological investigation began within months of the f irst protest (Laue [1966] 1989; Oppenheimer 1963; Searles and Williams 1962; Wehr 1960), and the sit-ins have become an exemplary case in the literature on social movements (Killian 1984; McAdam 1982, 1983; McAdam and Sewell 2001; Morris 1981, 1984; Oberschall 1973, 1989; Piven and Cloward 1977; Polletta 1998). Despite the amount of research devoted to the sit-ins, there is no consensus on why they occurred. Some sociologists (e.g., Morris 1981, 1984) argue that movement organizations, especially the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), played the crucial role of coordinating and mobilizing protest. Others (e.g., Killian 1984; Oberschall 1989) contend that the wave was spontaneous, with college students in various cities adopting this novel form of protest because they were inspired by the actions of students elsewhere. Previous research has not compared the cities swept up in the wave with the more numerous cities that remained untouched. The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: Movement Organizations, Social Networks, and News Media in the 1960 Sit-Ins
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