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A voice that could stir an army

Brooks, Maegan Parker.

A voice that could stir an army Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement / [electronic resource] : Maegan Parker Brooks. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Race, rhetoric, and media series . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781626740334 162674033X


Hamer, Fannie Lou.


African Americans--Civil rights--History--Mississippi--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
African American women civil rights workers--Biography.


Electronic books.

E185.97.H35 / B76 2014

323.092 B