Entry:

Santoro, Wayne A., “The Civil Rights Movement’s Struggle for Fair Employment; A “Dramatic Events-Conventional Politics” Model,” Social Forces, 81 (September, 2002), 177-206.

Abstract:

This study seeks to explain the adoption of civil rights legislation across periods of insurgency as well as relative quiescence. The historically grounded thesis I advance argues that within a context of public apathy, dramatic event generate the “first wave” of civil rights concessions. These early policy successes, however, set in motion a sequence of events that both diminish the role of dramatic events and heighten the role of conventional political processes in subsequent “second wave” legislation.

Other Data Sets:

NYT, ORC 1974