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Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

Miller, Elizabeth Ellis

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Series: Movement Rhetoric Rhetoric's Movements

Black American HistoryGeneral ReferenceRegional: South

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ISBN10: 1643363891
ISBN13: 9781643363899
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: May 11 2023
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Original archival research invites new ways of understanding the rhetorics of the civil rights movement

In Liturgy of Change, Elizabeth Ellis Miller examines civil rights mass meetings as a transformative rhetorical, and religious, experience. Scholars of rhetoric have analyzed components of the civil rights movement, including sit ins, marches, and voter registration campaigns, as well as meeting speeches delivered by well-known figures. The mass meeting itself still is also a significant site in rhetorical studies. Miller's liturgy of change framework brings attention to the pattern of religious genres--song, prayer, and testimony--that structured the events, and the ways these genres created rhetorical opportunities for ordinary people to speak up and develop their activism. To recover and reconstruct these patterns, Miller analyzes archival audio recordings of mass meetings held in Greenville and Hattisburg, Mississippi; Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham, Alabama; Savannah, Sumter, and Albany, Georgia; St. Augustine, Florida; and Danville, Virginia.

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