The structural context of novel rights claims: Southern civil rights organizing, 1961-1966

Law and Society Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-406

  Polletta, Francesca ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3115087     Document Type: Article

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