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The Dialectic of Leadership and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike

Jason Sokol

出版	Oberlin College, 1999
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ImLctgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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I wish to... pursue questions concerning social movements, the dynamic between leaders and their followers, and historical change in general. The questions that frame my work include: Why the winter of 1968? What was it that drove the workers to strike then? Where was this movement's strength located? Was it essentially a local struggle, or did the movement in Memphis draw its power in large part from the national forces of labor and civil rights that came to its aid? To understand these questions, this inquiry delves into the issue of leadership in mass movements, particularly in the American civil rights movement, and in the case of Memphis, 1968. What was the relationship between leaders and followers? Who provided strength for whom, and what was this struggle about? Ultimately, how does historical change take place? Does change come most powerfully from the local people who finally demand it after years of suffering? Or must there be a national power - an organization or a person - willing to provide money, resources, national influence, and strength of spirit in order to press these local people on? Or is the key to historical change to be found somewhere in the middle, somewhere in the midst of that dynamic between national and local forces, leaders and their followers? And specifically, what do the events of 1968 in Memphis reveal about these questions?