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- Title
MEMORY AND RECONCILIATION IN THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE.
- Authors
Gallagher, Victoria J.
- Abstract
The article describes and analyzes the rhetorical consequence, form and content of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. It highlights the description of the institute's artifacts and analyzes its varied elements. It reveals that a visit to the institute includes educational factors, as well as remembrance and preservation functions that lead to re-envisioning one's heritage, engaging in a pilgrimage, and enlivening and reinvigorating key values of individuals and communities. In addition, it assesses that the visual exhibits within the institute are transactional, promote an experience of history that is fluid, and portray the dialectical relationship between history and memory.
- Subjects
BIRMINGHAM (Ala.); ALABAMA; RHETORIC; ANTIQUITIES; MEMORY; HISTORY; SOCIAL values; COMMUNITIES; BIRMINGHAM Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Publication
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 1999, Vol 2, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
1094-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rap.2010.0067