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From Evidentiary Presentation to Artful Re-Presentation: Media Images, Civil Rights Documentaries, and the Audiovisual Writing of History
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IN RELAYING ITS HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT of the 1950s and 1960s, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's permanent installation relies heavily on archival televisual footage. Although the walls of the installation contain pictures and written commentary, the audiovisual displays spread throughout the various galleries dominate a visitor's attention. As one might expect, the exhibition on Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 (titled "Birmingham: The World Is Watching!") includes footage of...
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The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory.(Book review)
Southern Cultures
; ... of racial justice issues as safely assigned to an almost unrecognizable past. Also important is Edward P. Morgan's analysis of news accounts of civil-rights anniversaries. His claim that the public memory that emerges elevates some aspects of the struggle to ...
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Civil rights movement paved way for other freedom fights
Chicago Sun-Times
; Sue Purrington remembers the role of women in the civil rights movement: making posters, coffee and meals. "It was a double-edged participation," she said of the paradox of working for equal rights while being relegated to menial duties. But, "We learned organizing from the civil rights movement,"
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Dissent in Wichita--the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72.(Book Review)
The Oral History Review
; ... 1960s, every evening television brought us face-to-face with news and details of the Civil Rights Movement. We became familiar ... Rights Movement as viewed through the lens of 1960s television news, the Movement appeared to happen largely in the American South ...
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EYES ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 'MISSISSIPPI BURNING' LATEST IN A WAVE OF WORKS ABOUT THE 'KING YEARS'
The Boston Globe
; The disappearance of the three civil rights workers mesmerized the country for weeks. Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, two whites and a black, drove into Mississippi on the last day of spring, 1964 -- part of the vanguard of black and white civil rights workers flooding the South
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Civil rights movement through the eyes of TV
Indianapolis Recorder
; ... movement played a crucial role in the emerging practices and self-understanding of network information workers - the makers of news, documentary, and public affairs programming - during the 1950s. The fates of the movement and information genres in their formative ...
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The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History
The Journal of Southern History
; The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. By Bobby L. Lovett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 483. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-443-6.) In The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History, Bobby L. Lovett offers a well-researched, "top-down" account
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The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History.(Book review)
Journal of Southern History
; The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. By Bobby L. Lovett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 483. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-443-6.) In The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History, Bobby L. Lovett offers a well-researched, top-down account of
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Bearers of the Torch Keep Civil Rights Movement Alive
Los Angeles Sentinel
; ... witnessed the bombing site where the four black girls were killed. She was a kid, herself when that incident exploded across national news. Before she was born her parents' home was bombed. It is these experiences that have kept Donzaleigh, now an actress, rooted ...
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I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
Southern Cultures
; ... black man raped a white woman. The fact that white male supremacy was so deeply gendered and sexually charged is not exactly news. But what we had not fully appreciated was the meaning and consequences of the male supremacy and masculinism within the Civil ...
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Last gasp of the civil rights movement.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Syl Jones When the great landmarks of the 21st century are unearthed and deciphered, future historians will mark the year 2001 as the death of the civil rights movement. The movement's demise provides reactionaries with a reason to cheer, no doubt, because they've been trying to kill it
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