The Rhetorical Strategies and Tactics of the Black Panther Party as a Social-Change Movement: 1966-1973
Description:
This thesis is concerned with the identification, description, analysis and evaluation of the rhetorical strategies and tactics of the Black Panther Party as a specific social-change movement from 1966 to 1973. Evidence is presented to indicate that the rhetorical strategies and tactics of the Black Panther Party played a vital role in the movement's rise and decline and that their choice of a power orientation and a rhetoric of coercion brought about the decline of the movement. This study als…
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Date:
August 1974
Creator:
Edwards, Patricia Bowman
Partner:
UNT Libraries