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1 online resource (xxxii, 221 pages) |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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Contents |
INTRODUCTION: Showing Love and Telling It Like It Is: The Rhetorical Practices of Fannie Lou Hamer; "I Don't Mind My Light Shining," Speech Delivered at a Freedom Vote Rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, Fall 1963; Federal Trial Testimony, Oxford, Mississippi, December 2, 1963; Testimony Before a Select Panel on Mississippi and Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1964; Testimony Before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22, 1964 |
Summary |
Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement veterans |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index |
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Print version record |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources
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Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources
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HISTORY -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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Civil rights movements
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Race relations
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources
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Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- Sources
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Mississippi
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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Author |
Brooks, Maegan Parker.
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Houck, Davis W.
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ISBN |
9781604738230 |
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1604738235 |
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1282960857 |
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9781282960855 |
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9786612960857 |
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661296085X |
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9781496801500 |
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1496801504 |
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