On fire : five civil rights sit-ins and the rhetoric of protest /

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"The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide range of rhetorical strategies and tactics. Arguably the most astonishing and certainly the least understood are the sit-in protests that swept the nation...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: O'Rourke, Sean Patrick (Editor), Pace, Lesli K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations > United States > History > 20th century.
Direct action > United States > History > 20th century.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Action directe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights movements
Direct action
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : five civil rights sit-ins and the rhetoric of protest / Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Lesli K. Pace
  • Reading bodies, reading books : a rhetorical history of the 1960 Greenville, South Carolina, sit-ins / Sean Patrick O'Rourke
  • Nothing new for Easter : rhetoric, collective action, and the Louisville sit-in movement / Stephen Schneider
  • The Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rock Hill, South Carolina, sit-ins : constitutive publics and the role of audience / Richard W. Leeman
  • Visual narratives, Christian rhetoric, and Kairos : the New Orleans Woolworth's sit-in / Lesli K. Pace
  • Afterword : the embers that remain / Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Lesli K. Pace

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