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- ISBN 9781496852557
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 2024
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been used throughout history to share and disseminate brief, powerful statements of truth and philosophical insight. Oftentimes, these sayings have helped unite people in struggles for social justice, serving as rallying cries for just causes. During the civil rights era, proverbs allowed leaders to craft powerful and evocative messages. These statements often needed to be made implicitly, as explicit messages were often met with retaliation and even violence.
Looking at the autobiographies, biographies, speeches, diaries, letters, and critical texts of Charles W. Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Bob Dylan, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, and Septima Clark, the volume analyzes how these figures employed proverbs in support of social justice causes and in civil rights struggles. Summerville argues that these individuals generated enough print material embedded with proverbs and proverbial language that they should be considered proverb masters. With chapters dedicated to each figure, Summerville reveals their adept uses of this powerful linguistic tool.
Looking at the autobiographies, biographies, speeches, diaries, letters, and critical texts of Charles W. Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Bob Dylan, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, and Septima Clark, the volume analyzes how these figures employed proverbs in support of social justice causes and in civil rights struggles. Summerville argues that these individuals generated enough print material embedded with proverbs and proverbial language that they should be considered proverb masters. With chapters dedicated to each figure, Summerville reveals their adept uses of this powerful linguistic tool.
Raymond Summerville is professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He has published in Proverbium, the Journal of Folklore and Education, and other publications.
Patricia A. Turner is professor of African American and African studies and vice provost of undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture and Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.
Patricia A. Turner is professor of African American and African studies and vice provost of undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture and Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.
