ABSTRACT
In this timely and dynamic collection of essays, Laura Dubek brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the literary response to the most significant social movement of the twentieth century. Covering a wide range of genres and offering provocative readings of both familiar and lesser known texts, Living Legacies demonstrates how literature can be used not only to challenge the master narrative of the civil rights movement but also to inform and inspire the next generation of freedom fighters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
“[D]e understandin’ to go ‘long wid it”: Storytelling and (the) Civil Rights Movement
chapter 1|15 pages
From Alabama to Tahrir Square
Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story Comic as Civil Rights Narrative
chapter 2|8 pages
Inviting Compassion and Caring through Testimony
Participants in the Civil Rights Movement Speak for Themselves
chapter 3|14 pages
“Tomorrow’s Great Meeting Place”
Collective Autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement
chapter 7|14 pages
“Living Proof of Something So Terrible”
Pearl Cleage’s Bourbon at the Border and the Politics of Civil Rights History and Memory
chapter 8|20 pages
“A Living Theater” for Human Rights
Jill Freedman’s Old News and Visual Legacies of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign
chapter 9|16 pages
“Gettin’ Ready to Ride into History”
Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus and Sites of Memory
