Author:
Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Imprint:Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
Descriptionxxxii, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Showing love and telling it like it is : the rhetorical practices of Fannie Lou Hamer -- "I don't mind my light shining," speech delivered at a Freedom Vote rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, Fall 1963 -- Federal trial testimony, Oxford, Mississippi, December 2, 1963 -- Testimony before a select panel on Mississippi and civil rights, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1964 -- Testimony before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22, 1964 -- "We're on our way," speech delivered at a mass meeting in Indianola, Mississippi, September 1964 -- "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired," speech delivered with Malcolm X at the Williams Institutional CME Church, Harlem, New York, December 20, 1964 -- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., September 13, 1965 -- "The only thing we can do is work together," speech delivered at a chapter meeting of the National Council of Negro Women in Mississippi, 1967 -- "What have we to hail?," speech delivered in Kentucky, Summer 1968 -- Speech on behalf of the Alabama delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1968 -- "To tell it like it is," speech delivered at the Holmes County, Mississippi, Freedom Democratic Party municipal election rally in Lexington, Mississippi, May 8, 1969 -- Testimony before the Democratic Reform Committee, Jackson, Mississippi, May 22, 1969 -- "To make democracy a reality," speech delivered at the Vietnam War moratorium rally, Berkeley, California, October 15, 1969 -- "America is a sick place and man is on the critical list," speech delivered at Loop College, Chicago, Illinois, May 27, 1970 -- "Until I am free, you are not free either," speech delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, January 1971 -- "Is it too late?," speech delivered at Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, Summer 1971 -- "Nobody's free until everybody's free," speech delivered at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus, Washington, D.C., July 10, 1971 -- "If the name of the game is survive, survive," speech delivered in Ruleville, Mississippi, September 27, 1971 -- Seconding speech for the nomination of Frances Farenthold, delivered at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, July 13, 1972 -- Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Dr. Neil McMillen, April 14, 1972, and January 25, 1973, Ruleville, Mississippi : Oral History Program, University of Southern Mississippi -- "We haven't arrived yet," presentation and responses to questions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, January 29, 1976 -- Appendix: Interview with Vergie Hamer Faulkner by Maegan Parker Brooks, July 14 and July 17, 2009.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216) and index.
