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Published: 15 June 2010
.... Archibald J. Carey Jr. and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. joined Randolph’s March on Washington Movement and became key figures of the grassroots mobilization tactics used by a younger group of ministers to advance black civil rights. Carey also endorsed the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Congress of Racial...
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Published: 30 May 2018
...This chapter depicts the continuing non-violent Civil Rights Movement and the continuous efforts of southern white ministers. In Washington, D.C., Randolph Taylor opened his church doors to participants in the March on Washington. In Chapel Hill, demonstrations led by Charles Jones, Clarence Parker...
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Published: 17 February 2017
...This chapter examines how history operates in autographic texts as a domain of lost experience and community through an analysis of Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro: A Graphic Novel (2008) and John Lewis's memoir March (2013). Both Incognegro...
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Published: 11 March 2024
...Focusing on John Lewis’s graphic memoir trilogy, March, this article examines the books in terms of their visual engagement with violence and empathy. Specifically, Lewis was a major proponent of practicing non-violence even in the face of the discrimination and relentless assault that he...
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Published: 18 May 2023
... how black women operate in the ritualized role of cultural worker who uses the black song traditions as a means of invoking the historical past in the present, while simultaneously nurturing the unrealized hope for the future. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Freedom Riders Freedom songs...
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Published: 01 November 2013
... to Louisiana, where they began as a paramilitary group in 1965, and their eventual foray into Mississippi, where they gained new public significance during the James Meredith “March against Fear and Intimidation” in 1966. The chapter explores the tradition of armed resistance in Mississippi and its distinction...
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Published: 01 November 2015
... Struggle. The protagonist, Gabe Gabriel, is both playwright and “a solo black performer within the context of the play,” and the chapter situates his four solo performances within No Place to Be Somebody's onstage action as counternarratives to heroic era accounts of both the 1963 March...
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Published: 27 April 2017
...This chapter argues that John Lewis's graphic memoir March: Book One, co-written by Andrew Aydin and drawn by Nate Powell, serves three interlocking purposes. First, by working within the comics medium, Lewis, Aydin, and Powell acknowledge the historical centrality of the medium...
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Published: 08 March 2022
..., and likely a majority of Alcott scholars, would be hard pressed to recall her full name.” Exploring a character who has been almost untouched in Alcott scholarship, Petrulionis places the March family housekeeper and cook “in the historical context of mid-nineteenth-century domestic servitude” while also...
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Published: 01 May 2015
... Administration PRRA San Juan Puerto Rico Atlantic Charter Whitham Charlie British Colonies Anglo-American Caribbean Commission Partido Popular Democrático Anglo-Saxon Agreement of the 1940’s Rexford G. Tugwell West Indian Conference of March 1944 During the tumultuous decade of the 1930s, colonial...
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Published: 08 March 2022
... in practical ways as Fuller’s essay does in theoretical ones.” Detailing Fuller’s various types of marriage equality, Doyle demonstrates how these are depicted in Alcott’s novel, beginning with the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. March and then with each of the March sisters’ marriages. Fuller’s essay “provides...
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Published: 01 September 2015
... Johnston's version of practical segregation; Patterson's feud with Hazel Brannon Smith, editor of the Lexington Advertiser; James Meredith's March Against Fear in Mississippi in 1966; and Aubrey Norvell's attempted assassination of Meredith. The chapter concludes by focusing on how the March...