Gwin Minrose Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement 9780820335636

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Автор: Gwin Minrose
Название: Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780820335636
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Политика и политический строй

Гражданские права и гражданство

ISBN-10: 0820335630
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 232
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 30.10.2012
Серия: Political Science
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 black & white photographs
Размер: 229 x 152 x 19
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Civil rights & citizenship
Подзаголовок: Writing the long civil rights movement
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till’s murder) and to organise boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith as the civil rights leader unloaded a stack of “Jim Crow Must Go” T-shirts in his own driveway. His was the first assassination of a high-ranking public figure in the civil rights movement. While Evers’s death ushered in a decade of political assassinations and ignited a powder keg of racial unrest nationwide, his life of service and courage has largely been consigned to the periphery of U.S. and civil rights history. In her compelling study of collective memory and artistic production, Remembering Medgar Evers, Minrose Gwin engages the powerful body of work that has emerged in response to Evers’s life and death—fiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and songs from James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, Lucille Clifton, Bob Dylan, and Willie Morris, among others. Gwin examines local news accounts about Evers, 1960s gospel and protest music as well as contemporary hip-hop, the haunting poems of Frank X Walker, and contemporary fiction such as The Help and Gwin’s own novel, The Queen of Palmyra. In this study, Evers springs to life as a leader of “plural singularity,” who modeled for southern African Americans a new form of cultural identity that both drew from the past and broke from it; to quote Gwendolyn Brooks, “He leaned across tomorrow.” Fifty years after his untimely death, Evers still casts a long shadow. In her examination of the body of work he has inspired, Gwin probes wide-ranging questions about collective memory and art as instruments of social justice. “Remembered, Evers’s life’s legacy pivots to the future,” she writes, “linking us to other human rights struggles, both local and global.” A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.

Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement, Gwin Minrose