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Mourning And Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'S 1968 Atlanta Funeral As An Image Event, Rebecca Poynor Burns
Mourning And Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'S 1968 Atlanta Funeral As An Image Event, Rebecca Poynor Burns
Communication Theses
The seven-and-a-half-hour series of funeral rites that occurred in Atlanta on April 9, 1968 in honor of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were broadcast live to 120 million U.S. television viewers and reported extensively in local and national newspapers and magazines. While King's April 4 assassination triggered deadly riots in more than 100 cities, Atlanta remained peaceful before and during the funeral. In this research thesis I explore how the funeral was leveraged by three disparate stakeholder group's King's family, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Atlanta's liberal white leadership- to stage image events. I create a …
The Discourse Of Planned Parenthood Of The Atlanta Area: 1964 – 1972, Melissa N. Miller
The Discourse Of Planned Parenthood Of The Atlanta Area: 1964 – 1972, Melissa N. Miller
Communication Theses
Objectives. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the mainstream reproductive rights organization Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area (PPAA) considered reproductive justice issues typically advocated for by non-traditional reproductive rights organizations. Methods. This research was a qualitative content analysis of discourse internal to PPAA (meeting minutes) and discourse communicated to the public externally via print media channels. Results. A total of 105 documents were analyzed as part of this study: 57 meeting minutes and 48 press clippings. The analysis revealed that, internally, PPAA did consider reproductive justice issues but that this was not directly communicated …