Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
by
Maegan Parker Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s 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...