Who Joined the sit-ins and why: Southern black students in the early 1960s

Mobilization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-256

  Biggs, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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