A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement /

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Author / Creator:	Brooks, Maegan Parker.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Race, rhetoric, and media series Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subject:	Hamer, Fannie Lou. Hamer, Fannie Lou. African American women civil rights workers -- Biography. Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography. African American women civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography. Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. African American women civil rights workers. African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements. Civil rights workers. Mississippi. United States. Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13539161

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ISBN:	9781626741669 1626741662 9781628460056 1628460059 9781626740334 162674033X 9781628460049 1628460040
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how she employed symbols-- images, words, and even material objects such as the ballot, food, and clothing--to construct persuasive public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social change. Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and r.
Other form:	Print version: Brooks, Maegan Parker. Voice that could stir an army. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628460049
Standard no.:	99988418025

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