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Communication in politics --- Depressions --- United States --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy.
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Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician of his era who was unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. He therefore took great care to hide his polioinduced lameness both visually and verbally. In FDR's Body Politics, Houck and Kiewe analyze the silences surrounding Roosevelt's disability, the words he chose to portray himself and his policies as powerful and healthgiving, and the methods he used to maximize the appearance of physical strength.
Public opinion --- English language --- Presidents --- People with disabilities --- Human body --- Rhetoric --- Physical fitness --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Endurance, Physical --- Fitness, Physical --- Physical endurance --- Physical stamina --- Stamina, Physical --- Exercise --- Health --- Physical education and training --- Sports sciences --- Rhetoric. --- Social aspects --- History --- Political aspects --- Roosevelt, Franklin D. --- Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, --- Rūzvilt, Franklin Dilānū, --- Rūzfilt, Franklin Dilānū, --- Lo-ssu-fu, --- Luosifu, --- F. D. R. --- R., F. D. --- FDR --- רוזוועלט, פראנקלין ד. --- רוזוועלט, --- Roosevelt, F. --- Roosevelt, F. D. --- Public opinion. --- Language. --- Health. --- United States --- Politics and government --- Germanic languages
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Rhetoric. --- Rhétorique
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Sociology of minorities --- Human rights --- Lecture --- Racism --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America
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Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present thirty-nine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle was at its most intense. Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954 and extending through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the editors chronicle the unique and important rhetorical contributions made by such well-known acti
Civil rights movements --- Women civil rights workers --- African Americans --- African American women civil rights workers --- Women --- History --- Civil rights --- United States --- Race relations --- 1900-1999
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Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement veterans. After years of comb
African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Civil rights --- History --- United States --- Mississippi --- Race relations
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