Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights

Contents

ix CONTENTS Preface xi Introduction 1 1 Rhetoric and Social Movements 13 2 Let My People Go 27 The Exodus in African American Cultural History 3 The Red Sea Has Opened 51 King’s “Death of Evil on the Seashore” Sermon 4 Broken Aloose from Egypt 71 The Exodus in King’s Montgomery Bus Boycott Rhetoric 5 Reaching Out for Canaan 91 King’s “Birth of a New Nation” Sermon 6 I’ve Been to the Mountaintop 115 King as the Movement’s Moses 7 Keep the Movement Moving 137 The Birmingham Protest Conclusion 163 Notes 173 Bibliography 195 Index 207 ...