This little light of mine : the life of Fannie Lou Hamer / Kay Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Kay.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hamer, Fannie Lou.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

African Americans--Civil rights.

United States.

Mississippi.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

History.

Mississippi--Race relations.

Race relations.

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 390 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Distribution:

New York : Published by the Penguin Group.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dutton, 1993.

Contents:

"This Little Light of Mine"

"I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned"

"I Want My Freedom Now"

"It Isn't Nice to Go to Jail"

"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, Hold On"

"Everybody Knows about Mississippi, God Damn"

"I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table"

"Which Side Are You On?"

"Freedom is a Constant Struggle"

"This is a Brand New Day"

"Do What the Spirit Says Do"

"Every Rung Goes Higher, Higher"

"Every New One Makes Us Stronger"

"Got My Hand on the Gospel Plow"

"Sisters, Brothers, All"

"And the Movement's Movin' On"

"Go Home to My Lord and Be Free".

Notes:

"A Dutton Book"

"First Printing, January 1993."

"Set in Quorum Book and Plantin Light."

"Designed by Julian Hamer."

"Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jack photograph by Charmian Reading. Photo handtinting by Ralph Wernli."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-373) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0525935010 :

OCLC:

26014546