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    Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
    Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
    Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
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    Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

    By Elizabeth Ellis Miller

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateMay 11, 2023
    ISBN9781643363905
    Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

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