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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raymond SummervillePublisher: University Press of Mississippi Imprint: University Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781496852489ISBN 10: 1496852486 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Foreword by Patricia A. Turner Introduction: Proverbs and Social Justice Chapter One: ""Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty"": The Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett Chapter Two: ""‘Literature Is the Expression of Life"": Sayings, Proverbs, and Proverbial Expressions of Charles W. Chesnutt Chapter Three: ""Winning Freedom and Exacting Justice"": A. Philip Randolph’s Use of Proverbs and Proverbial Language Chapter Four: ""Words Are but Wind"": The Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings of Bob Dylan Chapter Five: ""Each One, Teach One"": The Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions of Septima Poinsette Clark Chapter Six: ""You Can’t Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate the Tree, You Can’t Hate Africa and Not Hate Yourself"": The Important Proverbs, Sayings, and Proverbial Expressions of Malcolm X Chapter Seven: ""Black Power"" and Black Rhetorical Tradition: The Proverbial Language of Stokely Carmichael Conclusion: Proverbs Shaping Legacies Notes Works Cited Index"ReviewsRaymond Summerville's Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement comes to . . . all manner of people interested in Black culture, folklore, and history not a minute too soon.--from the foreword by Patricia A. Turner Author InformationRaymond Summerville is professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He has published in Proverbium, The Journal of Folklore and Education, and in other publications. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |