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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Fannie Lou Hamer; Maegan Parker Brooks; Davis W Houck |
| ISBN: | 9781604738223 1604738227 9781604738230 1604738235 |
| OCLC Number: | 643569409 |
| Description: | xxxii, 221 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Showing love and telling it like it is : the rhetorical practices of Fannie Lou Hamer -- "I don't mind my light shining," speech delivered at a Freedom Vote rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, Fall 1963 -- Federal trial testimony, Oxford, Mississippi, December 2, 1963 -- Testimony before a select panel on Mississippi and civil rights, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1964 -- Testimony before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22, 1964 -- "We're on our way," speech delivered at a mass meeting in Indianola, Mississippi, September 1964 -- "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired," speech delivered with Malcolm X at the Williams Institutional CME Church, Harlem, New York, December 20, 1964 -- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., September 13, 1965 -- "The only thing we can do is work together," speech delivered at a chapter meeting of the National Council of Negro Women in Mississippi, 1967 -- "What have we to hail?," speech delivered in Kentucky, Summer 1968 -- Speech on behalf of the Alabama delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1968 -- "To tell it like it is," speech delivered at the Holmes County, Mississippi, Freedom Democratic Party municipal election rally in Lexington, Mississippi, May 8, 1969 -- Testimony before the Democratic Reform Committee, Jackson, Mississippi, May 22, 1969 -- "To make democracy a reality," speech delivered at the Vietnam War moratorium rally, Berkeley, California, October 15, 1969 -- "America is a sick place and man is on the critical list," speech delivered at Loop College, Chicago, Illinois, May 27, 1970 -- "Until I am free, you are not free either," speech delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, January 1971 -- "Is it too late?," speech delivered at Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, Summer 1971 -- "Nobody's free until everybody's free," speech delivered at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus, Washington, D.C., July 10, 1971 -- "If the name of the game is survive, survive," speech delivered in Ruleville, Mississippi, September 27, 1971 -- Seconding speech for the nomination of Frances Farenthold, delivered at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, July 13, 1972 -- Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Dr. Neil McMillen, April 14, 1972, and January 25, 1973, Ruleville, Mississippi : Oral History Program, University of Southern Mississippi -- "We haven't arrived yet," presentation and responses to questions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, January 29, 1976 -- Appendix: Interview with Vergie Hamer Faulkner by Maegan Parker Brooks, July 14 and July 17, 2009. |
| Series Title: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. |
| Other Titles: | Speeches. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck. |
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources.
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources.
- Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- Sources.
