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A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Maegan Parker (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Series:Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subjects:
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
African American women civil rights workers > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African American women civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • "I don't mind my light shining"
  • A rhetorical education, 1917-1962
  • Through the shadows of death, 1962-1964
  • "Is this America?," 1964
  • "The country's number one freedom fighting woman," 1964-1968
  • "To tell it like it is," 1968-1972
  • The problems and the progress
  • "We ain't free yet. The kids need to know their mission," 2012.