The Civil Rights movement in American memory / edited by Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-369) and index.

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the new ideology of tolerance / Glenn Eskew -- Street names as memorial arenas: the reputational politics of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. in a Georgia county / Derek H. Alderman -- Narrative of redemption: the Birmingham Church bombing trials and the construction of Civil Rights memory / Renee C. Romano -- The good, the bad, and the forgotten: media culture and public memory of the Civil Rights movement / Edward P. Morgan -- Debating the present through the past: representations of the Civil Rights movement in the 1990s / Jennifer Fuller -- Integration as disintegration: remembering the Civil Rights movement as a struggle for self-determination in John Sayles's Sunshine state / Tim Libretti -- Restaging revolution: black power, Vibe magazine, and photographic memory / Leight Raiford -- Down to now: memory, narrative, and women's leadership in the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta, Georgia / Kathryn L. Nasstrom -- Engendering movement memories: remembering race and gender in the Mississippi movement / Steve Estes -- Deaf rights, civil rights: the Gallaudet "deaf president now" strike and historical memory of the Civil Rights movement / R.A.R. Edwards -- Riding in the back of the bus: the Christian Right's adoption of Civil Rights movement rhetoric / David John Marley -- Rosa Parks, c'est moi / Sarah Vowell.