Civil Rights Movement in American Memory

Name: Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
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ISBN: 9780820328140

ISBN-10: 0820328146

ISBN-13: 9780820328140

Edition: 2006

Authors: Renee C. Romano, Leigh Raiford, Derek H. Alderman, Owen J. Dwyer, Rebecca Edwards

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Memories of the civil rights movement are being created and maintained through memorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even street names. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; Mississippi Burning, Four Little Girls, and The Long Walk Home only begin to suggest the range of film and television dramatizations of pivotal events; and groups from Christian conservatives to gay rights activists have claimed the civil rights mantle. Contests over the movement's meaning are a crucial part of the continuing fight against racism and inequality. These writings look at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Leigh Raiford is assistant professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor and Head, University of Tennessee; Distinguished University Teaching Achievement Award, National Council for Geographic Education; University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching; Distinguished Professor of Teaching Award, East Carolina University



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Struggle over Memory




Institutionalizing Memory


Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement: Contradiction, Confirmation, and the Cultural Landscape



The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the New Ideology of Tolerance



Street Names as Memorial Arenas: The Reputational Politics of Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. in a Georgia County



Narratives of Redemption: The Birmingham Church Bombing Trials and the Construction of Civil Rights Memory




Visualizing Memory


The Good, the Bad, and the Forgotten: Media Culture and Public Memory of the Civil Rights Movement



Debating the Present through the Past: Representations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1990s



Integration as Disintegration: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement as a Struggle for Self-Determination in John Sayles's Sunshine State



Restaging Revolution: Black Power, Vibe Magazine, and Photographic Memory




Diverging Memory


Down to Now: Memory, Narrative, and Women's Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia



Engendering Movement Memories: Remembering Race and Gender in the Mississippi Movement




Deploying Memory


Deaf Rights, Civil Rights: The Gallaudet "Deaf President Now" Strike and Historical Memory of the Civil Rights Movement



Riding in the Back of the Bus: The Christian Right's Adoption of Civil Rights Movement Rhetoric



Rosa Parks, C'est Moi



Selected Bibliography on Civil Rights and Historical Memory


Contributors


Index