Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
8-2019
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph. D.
Department
English
Degree Program
English Rhetoric and Composition, PhD
Committee Chair
Schneider, Stephen A.
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Williams, Bronwyn T.
Committee Member
Williams, Bronwyn T.
Committee Member
Ryan, Susan M.
Committee Member
Brydon-Miller, Mary
Author's Keywords
literacy; sponsorship; civil rights; alternative histories
Abstract
This dissertation presents literacy sponsorship as a narrative framework that complicates the history of black struggles surrounding educational equity as a civil rights issue. While that history has traditionally been framed as a fight for black access to and participation in white-sponsored institutions, this dissertation demonstrates that a number of prominent black intellectuals and activists instead argued for black sponsorship of black literacy and pursued such sponsorship as a political strategy to advance the goals of the civil rights movement. As such, this project contributes to the body of alternative historiography in rhetoric and composition that examines sites of literacy instruction located in the “extracurriculum” of composition, including the Council of Federated Organization’s Mississippi Freedom Schools of 1964 and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project of 1964.
Recommended Citation
Hilberg, Jaclyn, "Subversive sponsorship : organized literacy education and the long civil rights movement." (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3281.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/3281
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