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Fannie Lou Hamer : from sharecropping to politics / by David Rubel ; with an introduction by Andrew Young.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E185.97.H35 R83 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubel, David.
- Series:
- History of the civil rights movement
- The History of the civil rights movement
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hamer, Fannie Lou--Juvenile literature.
- Hamer, Fannie Lou.
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights workers.
- Rural conditions.
- Sharecropping.
- History.
- United States.
- Mississippi.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights movements.
- Sharecropping--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- Mississippi--Rural conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Women--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 130 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Englewood Cliffs, N.J.] : Silver Burdett Press, [1990]
- Summary:
- Follows the life of one of the first black organizers of voter registration in Mississippi.
- Contents:
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Into the Fields
- Like My Mother Before Me
- Into the Courtrooms
- It Begins in Montgomery
- The Signs of the Times
- Going to Register
- The Battle for Mississippi
- Working for SNCC
- The Winona Jail
- I Have a Dream
- Mississippi Summer
- Is This America?
- The Last March
- Ruleville Is My Home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0382099230
- 0382240618
- OCLC:
- 21196651
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