1st Edition
The Selling of Civil Rights The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations
By Vanessa Murphree
Copyright 2007
206 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members included communication and publicity as part of their initial purpose. This book provides a broad overview of these efforts from SNCC's birth in 1960 until the beginning of its demise in the late 1960s and examines the... Read more
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Biography
Vanessa Murphree is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of South Alabama, where she teaches public relations and advertising. Her research primarily focuses on the relationship between public relations and social change. She has published articles in Journalism History and American Journalism examining the civil rights movement and has also written about crisis communication and historical perspectives of public relationship.
