![]() “With that voice of hers, … she says, ‘Very impressed with this piece of work. “After one of performances, I presented a piece to her, the number one of that series,” he said. Thornton also collaborated with the late Maya Angelou on her personal limited-edition piece and eventually made one for Winfrey. The book includes some limited-edition prints of Civil Rights leaders, such as Rosa Parks. He also has shared some of his works in his book, “Why Not Win?” which was published in April 2019. There’s nothing like giving a piece of you.” (PROVIDED PHOTO)Īs for his own creations, Thornton typically does not “sell” his art, he said: “I use it for auctions. “People who get to self-express are some of the most fortunate people in the world, and, in my opinion, those gifts are transferable.” Self-expression and creativity through art are important for Larry Thornton and something he readily shares. “I think inherent with any artist-music, drama, creative writing, photography-is a sense of volume,” he said. Self-expression and creativity are important for Thornton, and they are something he readily shares. “This program gives children an opportunity to not only express themselves but also celebrate an important movement in our history.” “I am very passionate about telling stories and expressing emotion through art,” he said. Thornton, 65, aims to plant a similar seed in young Birminghamians by giving them the opportunity to express themselves through art by hosting “Celebration of Creativity,” an annual art contest held during Black History Month for Central Alabama students in kindergarten through 12th grade. I always thought I could measure up, and now Ms. “Now I had a different trajectory of thought, thinking about what I could do. “Nobody was talking to me about ,” he said. Thornton didn’t consider art as a career until high school, and he credits one of his English teachers for planting the seed. He’s also a gifted artist who has made pieces for the likes of business mogul Oprah Winfrey. is more than an accomplished businessman and author. Through an account of the rhetorical geography of memory of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this essay posits that place, violence, and masculinity to animate a relationship between exigency and response, producing a gendered landscape of memory that limits at the outset the conditions and possibilities for women’s emergence.Self-expression and creativity through art are important for Larry Thornton and something he readily shares. The relationship between these spatial and rhetorical configurations are termed as the rhetorical geography of memory. This essay argues that memories of civil rights movements are mapped spatially and rhetorically to depict correlations among Jim Crow contexts and acts of black resistance. Although scholars recognize the importance of recovery projects that aim to recenter women’s roles in black freedom struggles, when it comes to these memory practices, the “woman problem” of civil rights memory is more acknowledged than understood. In fact, the South’s civil rights public memorial landscape-a conglomeration of museums and memorials that help comprise the region’s profitable black heritage tourism industry-is one that promotes a “Great Man” perspective. When publics remember southern black freedom movements they often forget women’s pivotal roles as activists and leaders. The analysis reveals how the News framed its coverage of arguably the greatest college football dynasty of all time, while the rest of Alabama faced more national scrutiny than any other state for such violent responses to the “threat” of racial equality. Guided by framing theory, a textual analysis was conducted on 1,407 articles written by the Birmingham News Crimson Tide sportswriters during each college football season between 19. ![]() The reviewed literature provides a historic account of the Deep South and the evolution of southern college football in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to place the state of Alabama and its Crimson Tide football program within the proper sociocultural context for this study. Growing tired of national media’s backward stereotypes, the University of Alabama’s victory over the University of Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl presented much of the South with the illusion that “northern values” were nonessential components in keeping pace with the rest of America’s progress. During this time, southern college football began to resonate in many respects with the Lost Cause – a set of exaggerated beliefs memorializing the Confederacy’s defeat – due to the sport’s shared traditions with the Old South’s values of masculinity, honor, and chivalry. ![]() This study examines college football’s role in redefining the American South’s regional identity in the century following the Civil War. ![]()
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