The Rhetorical Road to Brown V. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign

As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their...
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Author: Wanda Little Fenimore
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The Rhetorical Road to Brown V. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign by Fenimore, Wanda Little

The Rhetorical Road to Brown V. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign

$113.25

The Rhetorical Road to Brown V. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign

$113.25
Author: Wanda Little Fenimore
Format: Paperback
Language: English
As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated segregation in public schools with a third lawsuit in 1950, which was eventually decided in Brown v. Board of Education.

Amidst the Black parents' resistance, Elizabeth Avery Waring, a twice-divorced northern socialite, and her third husband, federal judge J. Waties Waring, launched a rhetorical campaign condemning white supremacy and segregation. In a series of speeches, the Warings exposed the incongruity between American democratic ideals and the reality for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. They urged audiences to pressure elected representatives to force southern states to end legal segregation.

Wanda Little Fenimore employs innovative research methods to recover the Warings' speeches that said the unsayable about white supremacy. When the couple poked at the contradiction between segregation and "all men are created equal," white supremacists pushed back. As a result, the couple received both damning and congratulatory letters that reveal the terms upon which segregation was defended and the reasons those who opposed white supremacy remained silent.

Using rich archival materials, Fenimore crafts an engaging narrative that illustrates the rhetorical context from which Brown v. Board of Education arose and dispels the notion that the decision was inevitable. The first full-length account of the Warings' rhetoric, this multilayered story of social progress traces the symbolic battle that provided a locus for change in the landmark Supreme Court decision.

Author: Wanda Little Fenimore
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 04/21/2023
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9781496843975

About the Author
Wanda Little Fenimore is assistant professor of speech communication. Her work has appeared in such publications as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Carolinas Communication Annual, and the anthology Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Fenimore received the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Community College Faculty Fellowship. Her research focuses on racial injustice in the twentieth-century US South.

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