Where the sacred and secular harmonize : Birmingham mass meeting rhetoric and the prophetic legacy of the Civil Rights Movement /

Among pivotal historical moments in the United States, the civil rights movement stands out. In Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, David G. Holmes offers an original rhetorical analysis of six speeches deliv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holmes, David Glen (Author)
Other Authors:	Miller, Keith D. (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2017]
Subjects:	King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Oratory. King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Political and social views. United States > Race relations. United States > Oratory.

Table of Contents:

Framing the fragments : remembering the Civil Rights Movement and recovering mass meeting prophetic rhetoric
Prophecy, poetry, and hermeneutics : Fred Shuttlesworth's presidential mass meeting rhetoric
"Do you want to be free?" : James Bevel, black prophetic rhetoric, and grassroots agency
Between prophecy and pedagogy : Ralph Abernathy's rhetoric of instruction and critique
Minor prophets and major politics: James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and the secular prophetic stance
Between prophecy and the presidency : King, Obama, and the contested legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Birmingham on my mind : personal reflections on teaching, scholarship, and vocation.