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A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement / Maegan Parker Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Maegan Parker, author.
- Series:
- Race, rhetoric, and media series.
- Race, rhetoric, and media series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
- Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Hamer, Fannie Lou.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960's black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how she employed symbols-- images, words, and even material objects such as the ballot, food, and clothing--to construct persuasive public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social change. Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and...
- Contents:
- Introduction: "I don't mind my light shining"
- A rhetorical education, 1917-1962
- Through the shadows of death, 1962-1964
- "Is this America?" 1964
- "The country's number one freedom fighting woman," 1964-1968
- "To tell it like it is," 1968-1972
- The problems and the progress
- Afterword: "We ain't free yet; the kids need to know their mission," 2012.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4968-0793-6
- 1-62846-005-9
- 1-62674-033-X
- OCLC:
- 862222414
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