Reexamining the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Toward an Empathetic Pedagogy of the Civil Rights Movement

Professional Geographer

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 171-186

  Alderman, Derek H ^a   Kingsbury, Paul ^b   Dwyer, Owen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil Rights Movement; empathy; geographic education; mobility; psychoanalysis

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CIVIL RIGHTS; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; MOBILITY; POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870969147     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.658728     Document Type: Article

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