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Author:

Brooks, Maegan Parker.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

314 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Biography.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-307) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "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 -- Afterword: "We ain't free yet; the kids need to know their mission," 2012.

Series:

Race, rhetoric, and media series.

ISBN:

1628460040 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781628460049 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861671232

LCCN:

2013039752

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)