Like wildfire : the rhetoric of the civil rights sit-ins / edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Leslie K. Pace.
2020
E185.61 .L554 2020
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Title
Like wildfire : the rhetoric of the civil rights sit-ins / edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Leslie K. Pace.
ISBN
9781643360836 electronic book
1643360833 electronic book
9781643360669 hardcover
1643360833 electronic book
9781643360669 hardcover
Published
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages).
Call Number
E185.61 .L554 2020
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1147948210
Summary
"The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement were extraordinary acts of dissent in an age marked by protest. By sitting in at "whites only" lunch counters, libraries, swimming pools, and churches, young African Americans and their allies put their lives on the line, fully aware that their actions would almost inevitably incite hateful, violent responses from entrenched and increasingly desperate white segregationists. The simplicity of the act, coupled with the dignity and grace exhibited by participants, lent to the sit-in movement's sanctity and peaceful power. These cohesive essays from leading scholars offer a new appraisal of the origins, growth, and legacy of the sit-ins, largely ignored in scholarly literature. By focusing on the persuasive power of demanding space, the contributors articulate the ways in which the protestors' battle for basic civil rights shaped social practices, laws, and the national dialogue"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : civil rights sit-ins and the rhetoric of protest / Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Leslie K. Pace
Liminal protest : Eleanor Roosevelt's "sit-between" at the 1938 Southern Conference for Human Welfare / Melody Lehn
"Our boys, our bonds, our brothers" : Pauli Murray and the Washington, D.C., sit-ins, 1943-1944 / David Miguel Molina
Lunch counters and the public sphere : the St. Louis sit-in as an emerging counterpublic / Joshua D. Phillips
From "dead wrong" to civil rights history : the Durham Royal Seven, Martin Luther King's 1960 "Fill up the jails" speech, and the rhetoric of visibility / Victoria J. Gallagher, Kenneth S. Zagacki & Jeffrey C. Swift
The Nashville sit-ins : successful nonviolent direct action through rhetorical invention and advocacy / Judith D. Hoover
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
Suffer the little children : propriety and piety in the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama youth demonstrations for civil rights / Roseann M. Mandziuk
The mustard man and the students' stand : analyzing images from the 1963 Jackson sit-in / William H. Lawson
From sitting in to sitting out : Gloria Richardson and the 1963 Cambridge movement / Lindsay Harroff
Wade in the water : African American and local news accounts of the 1964 Monson Motor Lodge swim-in / Rebecca Bridges Watts
Televisuality and the performance of citizenship on NBC's "Sit-in" / Marilyn DeLaure
Forgetting the 1960 Biloxi, Mississippi, wade-ins : collective memory, forgetting, and the politics of remembering protest / Casey Malone Maugh Funderburk & Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Visualizing a civil rights archive : images of the sit-in at the counter and other objects / Diana I. Bowen
Direct action, then and now : comparing the sit-ins and Occupy Wall Street / Jason Del Gandio
The longest sit-in / David Worthington
Afterword : chiseling at a fossilized memory : connections, questions, and implications / Keith D. Miller.
Liminal protest : Eleanor Roosevelt's "sit-between" at the 1938 Southern Conference for Human Welfare / Melody Lehn
"Our boys, our bonds, our brothers" : Pauli Murray and the Washington, D.C., sit-ins, 1943-1944 / David Miguel Molina
Lunch counters and the public sphere : the St. Louis sit-in as an emerging counterpublic / Joshua D. Phillips
From "dead wrong" to civil rights history : the Durham Royal Seven, Martin Luther King's 1960 "Fill up the jails" speech, and the rhetoric of visibility / Victoria J. Gallagher, Kenneth S. Zagacki & Jeffrey C. Swift
The Nashville sit-ins : successful nonviolent direct action through rhetorical invention and advocacy / Judith D. Hoover
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
Suffer the little children : propriety and piety in the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama youth demonstrations for civil rights / Roseann M. Mandziuk
The mustard man and the students' stand : analyzing images from the 1963 Jackson sit-in / William H. Lawson
From sitting in to sitting out : Gloria Richardson and the 1963 Cambridge movement / Lindsay Harroff
Wade in the water : African American and local news accounts of the 1964 Monson Motor Lodge swim-in / Rebecca Bridges Watts
Televisuality and the performance of citizenship on NBC's "Sit-in" / Marilyn DeLaure
Forgetting the 1960 Biloxi, Mississippi, wade-ins : collective memory, forgetting, and the politics of remembering protest / Casey Malone Maugh Funderburk & Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Visualizing a civil rights archive : images of the sit-in at the counter and other objects / Diana I. Bowen
Direct action, then and now : comparing the sit-ins and Occupy Wall Street / Jason Del Gandio
The longest sit-in / David Worthington
Afterword : chiseling at a fossilized memory : connections, questions, and implications / Keith D. Miller.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2020).
Series
Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Print version: Like wildfire Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2020.
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