An Archive of Hope
Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings
Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. An Archive of Hope is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a substantial collection of his speeches, columns, editorials, political campaign materials, open letters, and press releases, culled from public archives, newspapers, and personal collections. The volume opens with a foreword from Milk's friend, political advisor, and speech writer Frank Robinson, who remembers the man who started as a Goldwater Repu…
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Weitere Autoren: Black, Jason Edward (Hrsg.) / Morris, Charles E. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95502-8
- EAN: 9780520955028
- Produktnummer: 21596226
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'074 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Jason Edward Black is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and an affiliate professor in Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He is the co-editor of Arguments about Animal Ethics. Charles E. Morris III is Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and editor of Remembering the AIDS Quilt, Queering Public Address and co-editor of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest. Foreword: Frank Robinson, friend and speechwriter of Harvey Milk; member of Chicago Gay Liberation in the early 1970s, helped shape the rhetoric that Milk used to inspire the LGBT community across the country in the late 1970s. Robinson was a journalist for many years, has written numerous novels, several of which were turned into films (including the Towering Inferno). Robinson had a cameo role in the film Milk.
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