A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement /

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A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Maegan Parker
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Colección:Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Temas:
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Hamer, Fannie Lou
1900-1999
African American women civil rights workers > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African American women civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines > Biographies.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines > Mississippi > Biographies.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Biographies.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African American women civil rights workers
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Mississippi
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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