Mobilizing Public Opinion
Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era

Introduction
1. Elite Opinion Theory and Activated Mass Opinion
2. Black Insurgency and the Dynamics of Mass Opinion
3. The Sovereign Status of Survey Data
4. Constituency Mail as Public Opinion
5. The Racial, Regional, and Organizational Bases of Mass Activation
6. Contested Meanings and Movement Agency
7. Two Nations, Separate Grooves
Appendix One: Question Wording, Scales, and Coding of Variables in Survey Analysis
Appendix Two: Bibliographic Sources for Racial Attitude Items, 1937-1965
Appendix Three: Sampling and Coding of Constituency Mail
Appendix Four: Typology of Interpretive Frames
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
APSA Politics and History Section: J. David Greenstone Book Award
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Southern Political Science Association: V.O. Key Book Award
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Political Science: Political Behavior and Public Opinion | Race and Politics
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology
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