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Proverb Masters : Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, Hardback Book

Proverb Masters : Shaping the Civil Rights Movement Hardback

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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.

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