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Author Bracey, Earnest N.

Title Fannie Lou Hamer : the life of a civil rights icon / Earnest N. Bracey.

Publication Info. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2011]
©2011

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. HAMER, F.    Storage
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  323.092 BRACEY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-HAMER, F.    Check Shelf
Description x, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject 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.
ISBN 9780786460304 softcover alkaline paper
078646030X softcover alkaline paper
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