Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / "Under the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) between 3,000 and 5,000 African American, Mexican American, American Indian, Puerto Rican and white Appalachian poor people caravanned to Washington, D.C., and built a temporary city-- Resurrection City-- on the symbolic space of the National Mall, where they remained for over six weeks as part of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign"--p. xiii. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 557-573)