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Author:

Larson, Kate Clifford, author.

Title:

Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer / Kate Clifford Larson.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

viii, 322 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; cm

Subject:

Hamer, Fannie Lou.
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--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and index.

Summary:

She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America -- the right to cast a ballot -- in a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population.

ISBN:

9780190096847
0190096845

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1237398180

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

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GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)