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

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

A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story of...

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Main Author: Brooks, Maegan Parker
Format: Electronic eBook
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.
Biographies.
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