By Maegan Parker Brooks,Davis W. Houck
Most those who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are conscious of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist added on the 1964 Democratic nationwide conference. a long way fewer individuals are acquainted with the speeches Hamer brought on the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to assert not anything of addresses she gave in the direction of domestic, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or maybe on the founding of the nationwide Women's Political Caucus. beforehand, dozens of Hamer's speeches were buried in archival collections and within the basements of circulate veterans. After years of combing library records, govt files, and personal collections around the kingdom, Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck have chosen twenty-one of Hamer's most crucial speeches and testimonies.
As the 1st quantity to completely exhibit Hamer's skills as an orator, this e-book contains speeches from the higher a part of her fifteen-year activist profession added according to events as specified as a Vietnam conflict Moratorium Rally in Berkeley, California, and a summons to testify in a Mississippi courtroom.
Brooks and Houck have coupled those heretofore unpublished speeches and tales with short severe descriptions that position Hamer's phrases in context. The editors additionally contain the final full-length oral background interview Hamer granted, a up to date oral historical past interview Brooks performed with Hamer's daughter, in addition to a bibliography of extra fundamental and secondary assets. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer demonstrates that there's nonetheless a lot to profit approximately and from this valiant black freedom flow activist.
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