Martin Luther King and the rhetoric of freedom : the Exodus narrative in America's struggle for civil rights / Gary S. Selby.

Author: Selby, Gary S.

Imprint:Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2008.

Descriptionxii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Rhetoric and social movements -- Let my people go : the Exodus in African American cultural history -- The Red Sea has opened : King's "Death of evil on the seashore" sermon -- Broken aloose from Egypt : the Exodus in King's Montgomery Bus Boycott rhetoric -- Reaching out for Canaan : King's "Birth of a new nation" sermon -- I've been to the mountaintop : King as the movement's Moses -- Keep the movement moving : the Birmingham Protest.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.

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