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The 1960s Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter: Social Protest from a Negotiation Perspective
Author(s) -
McKersie Robert B.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/nejo.12367
Subject(s) - negotiation , social movement , civil rights , movement (music) , political science , perspective (graphical) , sociology , social justice , law , criminology , politics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , aesthetics
Today’s Black Lives Matter movement rests on the foundation of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and lessons from that earlier period are relevant to advancing racial justice today. Both movements provide rich material for understanding how social protests can be viewed as negotiation stories. This article uses a negotiations lens to (1) interpret key events and features of these two movements and (2) suggest how the current movement might be sustained in ways that advance racial justice.