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The Lexington, Kentucky Civil Rights Movement
… differences between the northern and southern civil rights movements through the examination of the black freedom struggle in Lexington, Kentucky. The geographical location of Lexington offers a unique perspective in civil rights movement activity, as the local movement was not distinctly …
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The Invisibles of the Civil Rights Movement: Uncovering the Unseen Changemakers
<p>Every successful social movement needs both charismatic leaders and faithful followers who enact the vision of the leaders. The American civil rights movement is a model for how this works. Leaders like John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and …
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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement
… focusing on common issues and concerns. With the civil rights movement being broadcast across the world, there was no better time for African American community and civil rights organizations to take a role within the movement in combatting the oppression, racism, and discrimination of white …
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FBI Investigations into the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
<p>This paper examines how the FBI investigated civil rights organizations and social movements from the 1950s through the 1970s. It compares the reasons for the investigations, the investigative methods, and the extent of the investigations. The paper uses FBI files as the basis for the …
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Voice of America And the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis
… Cold War. It analyzes news articles about the civil rights struggles in America in the 1950's and 1960's. This comparative discourse analysis identifies media frames and answers the question if there was an influence by the State Department in news output that was targeted towards audiences in …
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The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement
… dissertation tells a new story of the American Civil Rights Movement through the woman’s singing voice. The dissertation explores what is possible when political music is disentangled from patriarchal narratives of leadership and artistic genius. “The Protest Song” contends that women across the …
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Uncivil War: Memory and Identity in the Reconstruction of the Civil Rights Movement.
… New South, with battles over the legacy of the Civil War and the reassertion of Confederate symbols in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement's challenge to the status quo.</p><p>Memory of the Civil Rights Movement is entering public conscious through cultural mediums such as films and museums, …
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
<p>The historiography of Jews in the Civil Rights Movement is extensive, and recent scholarship has reevaluated the relationships between Jews and civil rights organizations. The role of southern Jews in critical states, such as Mississippi, is often amalgamated into one category: supportive but …
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The civil rights movement in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
… for his family history without addressing the Civil Rights era in which the main part of the narrative occurs. Commentary is needed on how the struggle for liberation of the black race as a whole during the Civil Rights Movement parallels the individual liberation that Milkman and other …
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Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and the Civil Rights Movement: A History and Analysis
… the album and discusses its relevance during the Civil Rights Movement. Chapter 1 provides a background in popular music analysis and the genre of Soul music. Chapter 2 includes a biography of Gaye and a brief history of the Detroit record label known as Motown. The collaboration of musicians and …
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"The forgotten years" of America’s Civil Rights Movement : the University of Kansas, 1939-1961
… cafe near campus. The sit-in was the end of a civil rights reform movement in Lawrence. At times a liberal movement, at others, a radical one, students and faculty used World War II's democratic rhetoric coupled with Lawrence's long tradition of protest on behalf of blacks to integrate parts of …
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Freedom and Equality Now! Contextualizing the Nexus between the Civil Rights Movement and Drama
… exclusion and inequality were impugned when the Civil Rights Movement undertook the challenge to bring about social and racial egalitarianism. The success of the Movement depended on contributions from many sources. This study focuses on the cultural entity of theatre to examine the contributions …
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Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… of religious motivations in the greater civil rights movement. In analyzing Baroni's story as a lived theological drama, I offer Baroni as a vessel for studying often overlooked Catholic influences in the movement: (1) The activist Catholic faith promoted by Dorothy Day and the Catholic …
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
… School shaped the grassroots leadership of the Civil Rights Movement. The thesis examines the role of citizenship education in the modern Civil Rights Movement and explores how educational efforts within the Movement enfranchised and empowered a segment of Southern black society that would have …
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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
… he owned during the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet the few depictions of his life and work in The Petal Paper that exist, scholarly or otherwise, are brief and cursory, with the only extended study devoted solely to him containing many inaccuracies, particularly regarding …
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
<p>During the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi has often been characterized as a simple battle of white racists against black activists. Drawing heavily on oral histories, personal publications, and Mississippi Sovereignty Commission reports, this thesis examines the unconventional stories of …
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Deliver Me From The Days Of Old: Rock And Roll, Youth Culture, And The Civil Rights Movement
<p>The U.S. civil rights movement is almost always presented as an undisputed success in mainstream culture and educational curricula, but scholars continue to question whether the widespread protests against racial segregation and inequality that swept the nation in the 1950s and 1960s led to …
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First Person Perspectives Of The Impact Of Segregation And The Civil Rights Movement On Southern White Racism
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s profoundly changed the lives of many young southern White citizens. Southern racism was a product of traditional indoctrination common in the culture of the Old South. During the generations after slavery to the Civil Rights Era, vulnerable White …
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Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964.
… that relate to events or ideas involved in the Civil Rights Movement during the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. The study focused on the four following musicians' recordings: Charles Mingus, <em>Fables of Faubus</em>; Sonny Rollins, <em>The Freedom Suite</em>; Ornette Coleman, <em>Free …
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“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens
… race, gender, and class that existed during the Civil Rights Movement, and the tensions that were a result of that intersectionality. This is accomplished through a re-examination of The Movement through a post-modern and Black feminist lens. Post-modern theorist Jean Francois Lyotard proposes …
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