A voice that could stir an army [electronic resource] : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement / Maegan Parker Brooks.
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TextSeries: Race, rhetoric, and media series | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN: - 9781626740334
- 162674033X
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 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
- 323.092 B 23
- E185.97.H35 B76 2014
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.
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