Living Legacies

Laura Dubek is a Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.

• List of Figures1 From Alabama to Tahrir Square: Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story Comic as Civil Rights NarrativeJ. Michael Lyons2 Inviting Compassion and Caring Through Testimony: Participants in the Civil Rights Movement Speak for ThemselvesMyra Zarnowski3 "Tomorrow’s Great Meeting Place": Collective Autobiographies of the Civil Rights MovementElizabeth Rodrigues4 "God Decreed It So": The Rhetoric of Destiny in 1963Corrine Hinton and Tonya Hall5 Back to Birmingham: Three Poets Remember the Sixteenth Street Church BombingStarShield Lortie and Laura Dubek6 "Pass it On!": Legacy and the Freedom Struggle in Toni Morrison’s Song of SolomonLaura Dubek7 "Living Proof of Something So Terrible": Pearl Cleage’s Bourbon at the Border and the Politics of Civil Rights History and MemoryJulius B. Fleming, Jr.8 "A Living Theater" for Human Rights: Jill Freedman’s Old News and Visual Legacies of the 1968 Poor People’s CampaignKatharina Fackler9 "Gettin’ Ready to Ride into History": Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus and Sites of MemoryJesse Williams, Jr.10 "My Childhood is Ruined!": Harper Lee and Racial InnocenceKatherine HenningerIndex

"This monograph breaks ground—moving the reader beyond the ‘popular’ narrative of the civil rights movement, which has largely been top-down, male-centered, and regionally focused, and infuses a multi-genre literary lens to interpret one of the most important historical event of the past." -- Thomas L. Bynum, Associate Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University.