Fannie Lou Hamer : the life of a civil rights icon /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Bracey, Earnest N.
Imprint:Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2011.
Description:x, 199 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
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.
African American women civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Mississippi.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8360587
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ISBN:9780786460304 (softcover : alk. paper)
078646030X (softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This book commemorates and explores the life of one of Mississippi's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention"--Provided by publisher.