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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Freedom Summer"”.
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Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer
… representations of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Texts examined at length include recruitment materials, media coverage, pamphlets, and letters produced during the project, as well as retrospective representations of Freedom Summer in popular films and literature. Drawing …
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Speaking for Others: A Political Analysis of Civil Rights Archives
… on the materials each has related to Freedom Summer Both of these institutions claim direct ties to Freedom Summer and their collections were analyzed in terms of what kinds of materials are present, who donated them and what biases exist based on the previous factors. The findings of …
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If Your Friends Joined A Movement, Would You Do It Too? How Intergroup Contact Leads to Participation in the Black Lives Matter Movement
… was a key predictor of participation in the Freedom Summer campaign of the Civil Rights movement. In this study, the effect of intergroup contact on participation in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is assessed. Using survey data collected by the researcher on both a student sample and a …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… successes of the Birmingham Campaign, the Freedom Summer Project, the St. Augustine Movement, and the Selma to Montgomery marches were essentially based on the Citizenship School, and Christian women leaders trained the major civil rights activists of these movements. This dissertation …
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The Social and Cultural Changes that Affected the Music of Motown Records From 1959-1972
… their messages. Events like the Mississippi Freedom Summer and Bloody Thursday inspired the artists at Motown to create these songs. Influenced by the cultural and social circumstances of the Civil Rights Movement, the musical output of Motown Records between 1959 and 1972 evolved from a sole …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… Radical South” moves chronologically through Freedom Summer and the 1960s to early eighties “third world” feminism. In my first chapter, the Free Southern Theater, an integrated theater group established in Mississippi in 1963, emerges as a major innovator of what I call visual jazz, which …