Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Holmes, Ekua, illustrator.

Candlewick Press, publisher.

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

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hamer, Fannie Lou--Juvenile literature.

Hamer, Fannie Lou.

African American women civil rights workers--Biography--Juvenile literature.

African American women civil rights workers.

Race relations.

Civil rights movements.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Mississippi.

African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Civil rights workers.

United States.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

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

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Mississippi--Race relations--Juvenile literature.

Hamer, Fannie Lou--Poetry.

African American women civil rights workers--Poetry.

Civil rights workers--Poetry.

Civil rights movements--History--20th century--Poetry.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Poetry.

African Americans--Biography--Poetry.

Women--Biography--Poetry.

Genre:

Biographies.

Picture books.

Biographical poetry -- Juvenile.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 34 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm

Edition:

[First edition.].

Place of Publication:

[Somerville, Massachusetts] : Candlewick Press, [2015].

Summary:

Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.

Contents:

Sunflower county, Mississippi

Delta Blues

Spoiled

My Mother Taught Me

Fair

Not Everyone Could Move up North

Worse off than dogs

Motherhood

Literacy test

On the move

The price of freedom

SNCC ("Snick")

The beating

Injustice

Running

Freedom summer

1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Africa

Washington

Black Power

America's problem

No rest.

Notes:

"First edition 2015"

"This book was typeset in Myriad."

"The illustrations were done in collage on paper."

Includes bibliographical references.

Caldecott Honor Book, 2016.

Junior Library Guild Selection.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards John Steptoe Award for New Talent - Illustrator, Winner, 2016

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy dustjacket has stickers for "Caldecott Honor Book," "The Robert F. Siebert Honor Book" and "Coretta Scott King Award John Stptoe New Talent".

ISBN:

9780763665319

0763665312

OCLC:

917337564