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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. She is particularly remembered for her speech before the Credentials Committee, seeking to end all-white representation of her home state. Like many before her, this figure sought to expand freedom and basic rights to African Americans in the United States.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Fannie Lou Hamer
• Subtitle: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon
• Author: Earnest N. Bracey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 209
• EAN: 9780786460304
• ISBN: 9780786460304
• ID: 06330632
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 156 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. February 2011

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