A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement / / Maegan Parker Brooks
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Brooks Maegan Parker
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| Titolo: |
A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement / / Maegan Parker Brooks
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.092 |
| Soggetto topico: | African American women civil rights workers |
| Civil rights workers - United States | |
| African American women civil rights workers - Mississippi | |
| Civil rights workers - Mississippi | |
| 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: "I don't mind my light shining" -- A rhetorical education, 1917-1962 -- Through the shadows of death, 1962-1964 -- "Is this America?" 1964 -- "The country's number one freedom fighting woman," 1964-1968 -- "To tell it like it is," 1968-1972 -- The problems and the progress -- Afterword: "We ain't free yet; the kids need to know their mission," 2012. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960's black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how she employed symbols-- images, words, and even material objects such as the ballot, food, and clothing--to construct persuasive public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social change. Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A voice that could stir an army |
| ISBN: | 1-4968-0793-6 |
| 1-62846-005-9 | |
| 1-62674-033-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817956103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Race, rhetoric, and media series.