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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.
African American women -- Biography -- Poetry.
Civil rights workers -- Biography -- Poetry.
Civil rights movements -- History -- Poetry.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Poetry.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Children's poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Sunflower County, Mississippi
  • Delta Blues
  • Spoiled
  • My mother taught me
  • Fair
  • Not everyone could move up north
  • Worse off than dogs
  • Motherhood
  • Literacy test
  • On the move
  • The price of freedom
  • SNCC ("Snick")
  • The beating
  • Injustice
  • Running
  • Freedom summer
  • 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey
  • Africa
  • Washington
  • Black power
  • America's problem
  • No rest.

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