20 Questions with Davis Houck What was your first job? Canning nightcrawlers for a nickel a dozen for a local mom and pop store. I think I lasted about 3 weeks. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? Where it Never Rains: Days and Dreams in the Buckeye …
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20 Questions with Davis Houck
Houck’s Students Study Lynching Case in Jackson County
Davis W. Houck, Ph.D., Professor at Florida State University’s School of Communication, took his class on a field trip to Jackson County on Friday, November 7th. “We were there to visit several sites associated with the lynching of Claude Neal,” said Houck. The lynching, recognized nationwide for its brutality, caught the attention of anti-lynching activists and Congress. …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM Professor Houck publishes his second book volume on Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Davis W. Houck, a professor at Florida State University (FSU)’s School of Communication, published the second volume of his civil rights recovery project, Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, with Baylor University Press (co-edited with David E. Dixon). This second book volume required extensive work to collect and archive from audiotapes to old documents. These speeches …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM Professor Houck featured in NY Times article on his research into a Civil Rights sermon
Dr. Davis W. Houck, a professor at Florida State University (FSU)’s School of Communication, was featured and quoted in the NY Times article, “Civil Rights Sermon is Mislaid but Not Forgotten.” The article discusses what Houck believed to be a neglected aspect of civil rights history. Since 2003, he has been compiling a collection of public …
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FSU University Communications and the Office of the Provost hosted the second annual “Newsmakers of the Year” event on Jan. 28 at the Turnbull Conference Center. According to the Associate Vice President of Integrated Marketing & Communications, Dr. Jeanette De Diemar, “the Newsmakers of the Year event was an opportunity to recognize the collaborative efforts between …
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FSU undergraduate student, Jessica Primiani, has discovered documents from an African-American newspaper (the St. Louis Argus) which were long missing and shed new insights about the Emmett Till murder case. In 1955, Till, a 14-year-old black boy, was brutally killed after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Money, Mississippi. This incident and his trial …
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