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Title:

Songs my mother taught me [sound recording] / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Format:

[sound recording] /

Publisher:

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

1 audio disc (47 min.) : digital, CD audio, stereo. ; 12 cm) 1 booket (32 pages : portraits ; 12 cm)

Subject:

Spirituals (Songs)
Gospel music.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Civil rights--Songs and music.
Hymns, English.
Lullabies.
Music.

Other Authors:

Hamer, Fannie Lou, speaker. interviewee, speaker.
Hamer, Fannie Lou. Speeches. Selections.
Lester, Julius, interviewer.
Moon, Moses, recordist.

Notes:

Duration: 47 min. Program and biographical notes (32 pages : portraits) in English inserted in container. Fannie Lou Hamer, performer, interviewee ; Julius Lester, interviewer ; Moses Moon, music recorder.

Contents:

Amazing Grace / On being a sharecropper / John Newton. Run, mourner, run -- City called Heaven -- All the pretty little horses -- I'm gonna land on the shore -- Oh Lord, you know just how I feel -- I'm going down to the river of Jordan -- Jesus is my only Friend -- Pick a bale of cotton -- Keep your lamps trimmed and burning -- Walk with me -- This little light of mine -- Mass meeting speech -- Certainly Lord -- Woke up this morning -- Amazing Grace / John Newton.

Summary:

"The 20th child of a Mississippi sharecropper family and a commanding voice of the Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stood tall against the brutality, indigities and intimidation of implacable racism." --Container.

Series:

African American legacy recordings series.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905873463

UPC:

093074021620

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)