Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
Kate Clifford Larson (Author)
Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's family and with those with whom she worked most closely. Larson does justice to Fannie Lou Hamer's life, capturing in full the spirit, and the voice, that led the fight for freedom and equality in America at its critical moment. --From publisher description
Biographies
viii, 322 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780190096847, 0190096845
1237398180
Chapter One: Another Kind of SlaveryChapter Two: Delta BluesChapter Three: "Mississippi Appendectomy" Chapter Four: "Silver Rights" [Civil Rights]Chapter Five: WinonaChapter Six: "They had guns; they had dogs." Chapter Seven: "No one who went to Mississippi returned the same."Chapter Eight: "Until all men are free, nobody's free." Chapter Nine: Keep Your Eyes on the PrizeChapter Ten: "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired."Chapter Eleven: "This Little Light of Mine"Author's NoteNotes/BibliographyIndex