Fannie Lou Hamer
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Walk With Me
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Author : Kate Clifford Larson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-02
Walk With Me written by Kate Clifford Larson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-02 with Social Science categories.
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in Americathe right to cast a ballotin a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population. And so Fannie Lou Hamer lifted up her voice. Starting in the early 1960s and until her death in 1977, she was an irresistible force, not merely joining the swelling wave of change brought by civil rights but keeping it in motion. Working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which recruited her to help with voter-registration drives, Hamer became a community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She summoned and used what she had against the citadelher anger, her courage, her faith in the Bible, and her conviction that hearts could be won over and injustice overcome. She used her brutal beating at the hands of Mississippi police, an ordeal from which she never fully recovered, as the basis of a televised speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention, a speech that the mainstream partyincluding its standard-bearer, President Lyndon Johnsontried to contain. But Fannie Lou Hamer would not be held back. For those whose lives she touched and transformed, for those who heard and followed her voice, she was the embodiment of protest, perseverance, and, most of all, the potential for revolutionary change. Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's family and with those with whom she worked most closely. Stirring, immersive, and authoritative, Walk with Me does justice to Fannie Lou Hamer's life, capturing in full the spirit, and the voice, that led the fight for freedom and equality in America at its critical moment.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Author : Earnest N. Bracey
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Fannie Lou Hamer written by Earnest N. Bracey and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the life of one of Mississippi’s greatest civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She is particularly remembered for her speech before the Credentials Committee, seeking to end all-white representation of her home state. Hamer fought her entire life to expand freedom and basic rights to African Americans in the United States.
The Speeches Of Fannie Lou Hamer
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Author : Maegan Parker Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-05-27
The Speeches Of Fannie Lou Hamer written by Maegan Parker Brooks and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-27 with Political Science categories.
Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement veterans. After years of combing library archives, government documents, and private collections across the country, Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck have selected twenty-one of Hamer's most important speeches and testimonies. As the first volume to exclusively showcase Hamer's talents as an orator, this book 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. Brooks and Houck have coupled these heretofore unpublished speeches and testimonies with brief critical descriptions that place Hamer's words in context. The editors also include the last full-length oral history interview Hamer granted, a recent oral history interview Brooks conducted with Hamer's daughter, as well as a bibliography of additional primary and secondary sources. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer demonstrates that there is still much to learn about and from this valiant black freedom movement activist.
This Little Light Of Mine
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Author : Kay Mills
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2007-08-24
This Little Light Of Mine written by Kay Mills and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Fighting For The Rights Of Others 6 Pack
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language : en
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Release Date : 2022-04-29
Fannie Lou Hamer Fighting For The Rights Of Others 6 Pack written by and has been published by Teacher Created Materials this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-29 with categories.
Voice Of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer
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Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-12-24
Voice Of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer written by Carole Boston Weatherford and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-24 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book A 2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book A 2016 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner Stirring poems and stunning collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights. “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson’s interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats. Featuring vibrant mixed-media art full of intricate detail, Voice of Freedom celebrates Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and legacy with a message of hope, determination, and strength.
Until I Am Free
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Author : Keisha N. Blain
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Until I Am Free written by Keisha N. Blain and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Political Science categories.
National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Brilliantly constructed to be both forward and backward looking, Blain’s book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.”—New York Times Book Review Ms. Magazine “Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us – 2021” · KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW · BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW · Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall 2021 Explores the Black activist’s ideas and political strategies, highlighting their relevance for tackling modern social issues including voter suppression, police violence, and economic inequality. “We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.” —Fannie Lou Hamer A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice. Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe. Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured as a Black woman living in poverty in Mississippi, Hamer committed herself to making a difference in the lives of others. She refused to be sidelined in the movement and refused to be intimidated by those of higher social status and with better jobs and education. In these pages, Hamer’s words and ideas take center stage, allowing us all to hear the activist’s voice and deeply engage her words, as though we had the privilege to sit right beside her. More than 40 years since Hamer’s death in 1977, her words still speak truth to power, laying bare the faults in American society and offering valuable insights on how we might yet continue the fight to help the nation live up to its core ideals of “equality and justice for all.” Includes a photo insert featuring Hamer at civil rights marches, participating in the Democratic National Convention, testifying before Congress, and more.
For Freedom S Sake
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Author : Chana Kai Lee
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1999
For Freedom S Sake written by Chana Kai Lee and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The definitive biography of one of the most important civil rights activists of the twentieth century, For Freedom's Sake is also a moving social history of a critical epoch in American history."--Jacket.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Fannie Lou Hamer Fighting For The Rights Of Others
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Author : Dona Herweck Rice
language : en
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Release Date : 2022-04-29
Fannie Lou Hamer Fighting For The Rights Of Others written by Dona Herweck Rice and has been published by Teacher Created Materials this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-29 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn about the incredible story of Fannie Lou Hamer! Explore the legacy of this civil rights activist, teaching students about Fannie Lou Hamer’s fight for equal rights. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important topics like equality and voting rights. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning to explore activism, U.S. history, and the civil rights movement. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a “Civics in Action” activity designed to get students thinking and talking about social issues.