Selling of Civil Rights - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Use of Public

Informationen zum Autor Vanessa Murphree is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of South Alabama, where she teaches public relations and advertising. Her research primarily focuses on the relationship between public relations and social change. She has published articles in Journalism History and American Journalism examining the civil rights movement and has also written about crisis communication and historical perspectives of public relationship. Klappentext This book explores how Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers used public relations to support and promote their platforms and to build a grassroots community movement, as well as how the organization later rejected these strategies for a radical and isolated approach. Zusammenfassung This book explores how Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers used public relations to support and promote their platforms and to build a grassroots community movement, as well as how the organization later rejected these strategies for a radical and isolated approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'Peaceful Petitions to the Conscience'  2. Freedom in the Air: Politics and Community  3. Freedom Summer  4. Black Power: Awakening Black Pride and Consciousness  5. Internal Relations, Vietnam Opposition, and Radicalization

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Murphree, Murphree Vanessa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2006
• EAN: 9780415978897
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97889-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship