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The speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer to tell it like it is
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The speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer [electronic resource] : to tell it like it is / edited by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck.
ISBN
9781604738230 (ebook) :
Published
Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxii, 221 p.).
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Summary
This title presents twenty-one of Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's most important speeches and testimonies. It includes speeches from the better part of her fifteen-year activist career delivered in response to occasions as distinct as a Vietnam War Moratorium Rally in Berkeley, California, and a summons to testify in a Mississippi courtroom. The book includes brief critical descriptions that place Hamer's words in context.
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Mississippi scholarship online.
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Print version
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2016
Series
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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