View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Aquila Digital Community The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Summer 8-2013 Telling Their Own Story: How Student Newspapers Reported Campus Unrest, 1962-1970 Kaylene Dial Armstrong University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Other American Studies Commons, and the Peace and Conflict Studies Commons Recommended Citation Armstrong, Kaylene Dial, "Telling Their Own Story: How Student Newspapers Reported Campus Unrest, 1962-1970" (2013). Dissertations. 156. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/156 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi TELLING THEIR OWN STORY: HOW STUDENT NEWSPAPERS REPORTED CAMPUS UNREST, 1962-1970 by Kaylene Dial Armstrong Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2013 ABSTRACT TELLING THEIR OWN STORY: HOW STUDENT NEWSPAPERS REPORTED CAMPUS UNREST, 1962-1970 by Kaylene Dial Armstrong August 2013 The work of student journalists often appears as a source in the footnotes when researchers tell the story of perhaps the most significant period in the history of higher education in the United States – the student protest era throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.