The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is

Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that...
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Author: Maegan Parker Brooks
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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is by Brooks, Maegan Parker

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is

Dhs. 327.60

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is

Dhs. 327.60
Author: Maegan Parker Brooks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement veterans. After years of combing library archives, government documents, and private collections across the country, Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck have selected twenty-one of Hamer's most important speeches and testimonies.

As the first volume to exclusively showcase Hamer's talents as an orator, this book includes speeches from the better part of her fifteen-year activist career delivered in response to occasions as distinct as a Vietnam War Moratorium Rally in Berkeley, California, and a summons to testify in a Mississippi courtroom.

Brooks and Houck have coupled these heretofore unpublished speeches and testimonies with brief critical descriptions that place Hamer's words in context. The editors also include the last full-length oral history interview Hamer granted, a recent oral history interview Brooks conducted with Hamer's daughter, as well as a bibliography of additional primary and secondary sources. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer demonstrates that there is still much to learn about and from this valiant black freedom movement activist.

Author: Maegan Parker Brooks
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 03/18/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781617038365

About the Author
Maegan Parker Brooks (Editor)
Maegan Parker Brooks is a member of the National Fannie Lou Hamer Statue and Education Fund Committee. She is lead researcher on a documentary about Hamer; author of A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement; and coeditor, with Davis W. Houck, of The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Davis W. Houck (Editor)
Davis W. Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. He is coauthor of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press and coeditor of Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 and The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also the founder of the Emmett Till Archive at FSU and is partnering with the West Tallahatchie School District in the Mississippi Delta to bring Till-themed archival documents to high school students.


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