The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social MovementsRoutledge, 2006 - 375 pages Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. |
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Page 68
... Party flat at 2337 West Monroe Street and killed Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark . Hampton was the twenty - one year - old Chairman of the Black Panther Party of Illinois , while Clark , age 22 , was a Panther official from ...
... Party flat at 2337 West Monroe Street and killed Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark . Hampton was the twenty - one year - old Chairman of the Black Panther Party of Illinois , while Clark , age 22 , was a Panther official from ...
Page 105
... Party , and she was also working with the Black Pan- ther Party . In 1969 , when this came to the attention of the Governor of California - Ronald Reagan - and the California Board of Regents , a secret hearing was called to ascertain ...
... Party , and she was also working with the Black Pan- ther Party . In 1969 , when this came to the attention of the Governor of California - Ronald Reagan - and the California Board of Regents , a secret hearing was called to ascertain ...
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... Party member Benjamin Davis , after King presented a guest sermon at a church in Harlem in 1958 ; King associated with the Progressive Party when he was an undergraduate at Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1948 ( Churchill and Vander ...
... Party member Benjamin Davis , after King presented a guest sermon at a church in Harlem in 1958 ; King associated with the Progressive Party when he was an undergraduate at Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1948 ( Churchill and Vander ...
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