The Selling of Civil Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415805803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 206 str.

Murphree Vanessa; Vanessa Murphree

Opis

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. This book provides an overview of these efforts from SNCC's birth until the beginning of its demise in the late 1960s & examines the communication tools that SNCC leaders & members used to organize, launch, & carry out their campaign.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.