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Author Hamer, Fannie Lou.

Title The speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer : to tell it like it is / edited by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 221 pages)
Series Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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
Notes English
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Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources
HISTORY -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources
Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- Sources
Subject Mississippi
United States
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Brooks, Maegan Parker.
Houck, Davis W.
ISBN 9781604738230
1604738235
1282960857
9781282960855
9786612960857
661296085X
9781496801500
1496801504
Other Titles Speeches. Selections