The speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer : to tell it like it is /
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 co...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011
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| Series: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 221 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604738230 1604738235 1282960857 9781282960855 9786612960857 661296085X 9781496801500 1496801504 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
