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Arden N. Anderson

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email: ardenanderson2026@u.northwestern.edu *PI: doron@northwestern.edu The liberation movements of the 1970s were marked by both radical solidarity and moments of intense conflict and schism. These dynamics were especially visible in the understudied context of Chicago, where a racially diverse population and distinctive local political conditions created fertile ground for activists and new social movement organizations. This study examines how Chicago-based liberation organizations constructed both schism and solidarity within a shared political environment. Building on scholarship in resource mobilization and organizational infrastructure [1], collective identity and framing [2], and organizational dynamics of solidarity and schism [3], | employ a comparative content analysis of historical movement publications. | identify three organizational dynamics—coalition, schism, and simultianeity—and find that schism and solidarity often occurred simultaneously through processes of boundary enforcement. Coalition and schism therefore co-produced organizational strategies for managing movement boundaries, demonstrating that unity and fragmentation are not opposing outcomes of social movements but intertwined processes through which organizations negotiate collective identity and political boundaries.

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Northwestern University

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