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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brooks, Maegan Parker, author.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Description:	314 pages ; 24 cm.
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. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9984269

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ISBN:	9781628460049 (cloth : alk. paper) 1628460040 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781628460056 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	Online version: Brooks, Maegan Parker. Voice that could stir an army Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628460056

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "I Don't Mind My Light Shining"
Chapter 1. A Rhetorical Education, 1917-1962
Chapter 2. Through the Shadows of Death, 1962-1964
Chapter 3. "Is This America?," 1964
Chapter 4. "The Country's Number One Freedom Fighting Woman," 1964-1968
Chapter 5. "To Tell It Like It Is," 1968-1972
Chapter 6. The Problems and the Progress
Afterword: "We Ain't Free Yet. The Kids Need to Know Their Mission," 2012
Acknowledgments
Coda: Listen to the "Voice That Could Stir an Army"
Notes
Bibliography
Index