Civil Rights Collecting Institutions and the Facilitation of Public Engagement in the American South

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dc.contributorGaines, Robert
dc.contributorGreen, Hilary
dc.contributorWeddle, Jeff
dc.contributorSweeney, Miriam
dc.contributor.advisorRiter, Robert B.
dc.contributor.authorHirschy, Jeff
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-13T20:33:45Z
dc.date.available2022-04-13T20:33:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractAcross the American South, civil rights memory institutions created by city and state governments and private organizations, preserve and communicate complex civil rights histories. Each of these institutions, for different reasons, influenced by their particular cultural, historical, and community contexts, emerged to preserve and present this information to their communities. In addition to their individual contexts, each institution has various organizational and community contexts, for example mission statements or community support and interest, that helps to drive their relationships with their chosen communities. These archival and historical elements influence the facilitation of relationships between civil rights memory institutions, their communities, and the generation of new ideas and concepts. Examples of this engagement can be seen at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. This study will investigate how contexts, generated by the histories of Birmingham and Mississippi, inform how these institutions were created, organized, and how they engage with their chosen communities.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/176882
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0003676
dc.identifier.otherHirschy_alatus_0004D_14199
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/8381
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectAmerican South
dc.subjectCivil Rights
dc.subjectCommunity Archives
dc.subjectCommunity Engagement
dc.subjectMemory Institution
dc.titleCivil Rights Collecting Institutions and the Facilitation of Public Engagement in the American Southen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. College of Communication and Information Sciences
etdms.degree.disciplineLibrary science
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.
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