"The ballot or the bullet": The crisis of victory and the institutionalization and radicalization of the civil rights movement

Mobilization

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 207-229

  Santoro, Wayne A ^a   Fitzpatrick, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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