The Cross-National Diffusion of the American Civil Rights Movement: The Example of the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963

This paper is a case study of the bus boycotts of Montgomery in the US (1955-56) and Bristol in the UK (1963). Since the two movements seem to share a number of similarities, the aim of this paper is to determine if they are an instance of what the sociologists Doug McAdam and Dieter Rucht have call...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claire Mansour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2015-02-01
Series:Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/6360