TY - BOOK AU - O'Rourke,Sean Patrick AU - Pace,Lesli K. TI - On fire: five civil rights sit-ins and the rhetoric of protest T2 - Studies in rhetoric/communication SN - 9781643361628 AV - E185.615 .O546 2021eb U1 - 323.0973/0904 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Columbia, South Carolina PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Civil rights movements KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Civil rights demonstrations KW - Direct action KW - Mouvements des droits de l'homme KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Action directe KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : five civil rights sit-ins and the rhetoric of protest / Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Lesli K. Pace -- Reading bodies, reading books : a rhetorical history of the 1960 Greenville, South Carolina, sit-ins / Sean Patrick O'Rourke -- Nothing new for Easter : rhetoric, collective action, and the Louisville sit-in movement / Stephen Schneider -- The Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rock Hill, South Carolina, sit-ins : constitutive publics and the role of audience / Richard W. Leeman -- Visual narratives, Christian rhetoric, and Kairos : the New Orleans Woolworth's sit-in / Lesli K. Pace -- Afterword : the embers that remain / Sean Patrick O'Rourke & Lesli K. Pace N2 - "The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide range of rhetorical strategies and tactics. Arguably the most astonishing and certainly the least understood are the sit-in protests that swept the nation at the beginning of the 1960s. A companion to Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins, this concentrated collection of essays examines the origins and rhetorical methods of five distinct civil rights sit-ins of 1960, in Greenville, South Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; and neighboring Rock Hill, South Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky; and New Orleans, Louisiana. While these protests shared common influences and intentions, each demonstration was singular in its execution and reception. For students of rhetoric, protest, and sociopolitical movements, this volume demonstrates how by using lenses of rhetorical somatics, "bodily rhetoric," constitutive rhetoric, Christian rhetoric, and visual rhetoric, we can read the sit-ins as essentially persuasive conflicts in which participants invented and deployed arguments and actions in attempts to change segregated communities and the attitudes, traditions, and policies that maintained segregation"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2454789 ER -