The press did you in: The Poor People's Campaign and the mass media

Sixties

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-54

  Mantler, Gordon ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicano movement; civil rights; Civil Rights Movement; coalition building; Martin Luther King, Jr; media framing; Poor People's Campaign; War on Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952891271     PISSN: 17541328     EISSN: 17541336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17541321003771128     Document Type: Article

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