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June 13, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
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Calvin College communication arts and sciences professor Garth Pauley has won
one of the top awards in his field - the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award - for
his work on Civil Rights rhetoric.
The honor is given annually by the National Communication Association to an
outstanding young scholar. Pauley will officially receive the award in
November 2003 at the National Communication Association's annual convention in
Miami Beach.
Calvin communication arts and sciences department chair Randall Bytwerk says
the award signals a bright future for Pauley.
"Past recipients," he says, "form a who's who of top rhetorical scholars."
Pauley won the Wallace Award for his ongoing work on the March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom, a pivotal point in the Civil Rights movement that was
held 40 years ago on August 28, 1963.
That day more than 200,000 gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. A coalition of
civil rights organizations planned the march to demonstrate to the entire
nation that a gap existed between the tenets of American democracy and the
everyday experience of black Americans. During this march, Martin Luther King,
Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
But the March on Washington included more than just King's famous address.
There were nine major speeches that day and Pauley plans to recover the texts
of all nine, most of which have not been published, and to analyze the response
to the speeches and the role they and the responses played in the Civil Rights
Movement.
Most public commemorations of the March, says Pauley, treat it as a symbol of
hope and unity. Pauley, however, suggests a more nuanced interpretation. He
believes that significant rhetorical and ideological differences existed
between white and black speakers, as well as between moderate and more militant
black speakers. These differences merit detailed analysis, he says, as do the
diverse audiences for the March.
Pauley's primary research interest is the Civil Rights Movement and its
rhetoric.
He wrote an award-winning dissertation called "The Modern Presidency and Civil
Rights: Discourse on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon," now a book, and has written
such articles as "W.E.B. Du Bois on Woman Suffrage: A Critical Analysis of His
Crisis Writings" and "Harry Truman and the NAACP: A Case Study in Presidential
Persuasion on Civil Rights."
-contact Garth Pauley at 616-526-6294 or gpauley@calvin.edu
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