Maegan Parker Brooks

Fannie Lou Hamer

America's Freedom Fighting Woman

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Produktbeschreibung

Fannie Lou Hamer leapt to America's attention in 1964 when she delivered a stinging indictment of the American promise to the Democratic National Convention. This accessible biography underscores that Hamer's testimony was but one moment within a remarkable life that spanned fifty-nine tumultuous years in the history of American race relations.

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Produktdetails

• Library of African American Biography
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781538115947
• ISBN-10: 1538115948
• Artikelnr.: 58017091

Autorenporträt

Meagan Parker Brooks is assistant professor of Civic Communication and Media at Willamette University. She is the author of A Voice that Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement (2014), a CHOICE Outstanding Title.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction: "To Tell It Like It Is"
Chapter One: Visions that Transform
Chapter Two: Putting Up a Life
Chapter Three: "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired"
Chapter Four: Revelations
Chapter Five: "Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free"
Chapter Six: The Fight for Human Rights
Chapter Seven: "The Last Mile of the Way"
Afterword: "It's in Your Hands"
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
About the Author