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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. |
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9781643360836 electronic book |
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1643360833 electronic book |
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9781643360669 hardcover |
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