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THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG 1960s CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS |
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| Authors: | MARWELL, GERALD AIKEN, MICHAEL T. DEMERATH, N. J., III |
| Affiliation: | Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| Abstract: | A scattering of recent research has studied the current politicalbeliefs and attitudes of individuals identified as "1960s activists."In contrast to much of the treatment accorded such people inthe popular media, this research tends to find most of theseactivists currently liberal on a wide variety of political topics.However, in the absence of panel data, most of this researchhas had to assess any change in the activists' attitudes eitherby assuming the activists' past positions or by trusting totheir retrospective reports. In this paper we report on panel data from a large group ofwhite activists, mostly students, who spent the summer of 1965organizing voter registration drives in Southern black communities.In some specific areas on which the activists tended to holdrather extreme positions in 1965, they may have moderated by1984. However, their overall pattern of response on a wide varietyof issues is basically stable over this twenty-year period. |
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