Earnest N. Bracey

Fannie Lou Hamer

The Life of a Civil Rights Icon

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780786460304
• ISBN-10: 078646030X
• Artikelnr.: 30214039

Autorenporträt

Earnest N. Bracey is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and is a professor of political science and African American history at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
1. Birth, Cotton and Childhood     
2. The Slavery of Sharecropping     
3. Cry the Beloved Parents     
4. Death of Her Parents     
5. Marriage, Eugenics and Adoption     
6. Apartheid in Mississippi     
7. The SNCC Comes to Mississippi     
8. A New Political Activist     
9. Voting Rights and Freedom Summer     
10. Enfranchisement and Training     
11. The Arrest and Beating of Fannie Lou Hamer     
12. The Rescue and Aftermath     
13. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party     
14. Preparing for the 1964 National Democratic Convention     
15. The Great Orator     
16. Continuation of a Political Struggle     
17. Racism, the White Citizens' Council, and the FBI     
18. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and a Trip to Africa     
19. Speaking Out Loud and the 1968 Democratic Convention     
20. The End of Activism     
21. Creation of a Freedom Farm     
22. The Death of Fannie Lou Hamer     
Conclusions     
Epilogue     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index