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Voice of freedom Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement /

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the...

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Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
Other Authors: Holmes, Ekua,, Candlewick Press,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Physical Description: 34 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Juvenile literature.
Mississippi Freedom Project -- Juvenile literature.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Poetry.
Women.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Picture books for children.
Children's poetry.

CMU Juv Coll 2nd Floor

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