Pub Date : 2020-06-21DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469656335.003.0003
Claire Whitlinger
Chapter 2 considers how Philadelphia, Mississippi’s long-silenced countermemory becomes “official” collective memory, transforming cultural representation in the public sphere. By comparing two instances of silence breaking, the twenty-fifth and fortieth anniversary commemorations—both interracial community-wide events unique for having punctuated Philadelphia’s prevailing conspiracy of silence on the murders—this chapter argues that commemorability and mnemonic capacity are necessary but insufficient factors for silence breaking commemorations to emerge. The analysis then reveals two additional criteria—external pressure and interest convergence—suggesting that commemorating silenced pasts is arguably more challenging than commemorating merely difficult pasts.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-21DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469656335.003.0007
Claire Whitlinger
This chapter examines the differences between the 1989 and 2004 commemorations to identify the factors that were pre-sent in 2004—but not in 1989— that enabled the 2004 commemoration to have transformative commemorative outcomes. Most notably, the chapter suggests that the environment’s capacity to commemorate was more developed in 2004 than in 1989, as a number of historic, educational, and civil society organizations had developed in the succeeding years. This structural context enhanced the mnemonic capacity of locals to organize a commemoration and to pursue additional reparative efforts related to the state’s racial history. Beyond these structural factors, this chapter suggests that the 2004 commemoration resonated more deeply with target audiences and generated a collective identity and commitment to mnemonic activism among local organizers.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-21DOI: 10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469656335.003.0002
Claire Whitlinger
Previous research on Philadelphia, Mississippi and Neshoba County focuses overwhelmingly on the 1964 murders and subsequent legal trials (in 1967 and 2005), providing relatively little insight into the area’s commemorative practices. Furthermore, such research often depicts the twenty-five years following the murders as “the long silence,” a description that is not entirely accurate. It overlooks the annual commemoration services hosted by Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, the African American church that the three civil rights movement workers visited just before their deaths. This chapter recognizes and reconstructs the commemorative activities of Philadelphia’s African American community, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Neshoba County in 1966 and other resistance to the local Ku Klux Klan. Doing so uncovers two distinct communities of memory: one characterized by Philadelphia’s dominant white public sphere, the official, government-sanctioned memory; the other representing a powerful and persistent countermemory embedded in Philadelphia’s African American community. In doing so, this chapter positions the twenty-fifth and fortieth anniversary commemorations within historical context, uncovering the mnemonic landscape that preceded the emergence of these two community-wide commemoration services.
先前对费城、密西西比州和内绍巴县的研究主要集中在1964年的谋杀案和随后的法律审判(1967年和2005年)上，对该地区的纪念活动提供的见解相对较少。此外，这类研究经常把谋杀案发生后的25年描述为“漫长的沉默”，这种描述并不完全准确。它俯瞰着锡安山联合卫理公会教堂(Mt. Zion United Methodist Church)举办的年度纪念仪式，这三名民权运动工作者在去世前曾访问过这座非裔美国人教堂。这一章承认并重建了费城非裔美国人社区的纪念活动，包括1966年马丁·路德·金对内肖巴县的访问以及对当地三k党的其他抵抗。这样做揭示了两个不同的记忆社区:一个以费城占主导地位的白人公共领域为特征，官方的，政府批准的记忆;另一个则代表了费城非裔美国人社区中强大而持久的反记忆。在此过程中，本章将25周年和40周年纪念活动置于历史背景中，揭示了在这两个社区范围的纪念活动出现之前的记忆景观。
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