Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon by Earnest N. Bracey

By Earnest N. Bracey

This ebook explores the lifetime of one among Mississippi’s maximum civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. identified for her bold, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence within the Mississippi Freedom Democratic celebration, an intrepid team which attempted to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi throughout the 1964 Democratic nationwide conference. She is very remembered for her speech earlier than the Credentials Committee, trying to finish all-white illustration of her domestic country. Hamer fought her whole lifestyles to extend freedom and easy rights to African americans within the United States.

Show description

Read or Download Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon PDF

Similar biographies of lawyers & judges books

W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia

Sporting W. E. B. Du Bois from his beginning in Massachusetts in 1868 to his demise in Ghana in 1963, this concise encyclopedia covers the entire highlights of his life--his learning at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, his tiff with Booker T. Washington, his function with the NAACP and Pan-Africanism, his writings, his globe trotting, and his exile in Ghana.

Visti da vicino (Yahoopolis. Guide postmoderne) (Italian Edition)

Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino visti da vicino, raccontati da chi, in step with anni, ancor prima che diventassero i magistrati antimafia che tutti conosciamo, ha vissuto al loro fianco momenti indimenticabili. Colleghi, investigatori e collaboratori ma anche amici veri, che – diversamente da quanto fatto da chi in questi vent’anni si è vantato della loro amicizia – fino advert ora non avevano mai raccontato nulla di quel rapporto così intimo che hanno conservato nei loro cuori.

Abelard and Heloise. Love and Crime.: REMARKS on A Literal Translation of their Correspondence (Abelard and Heloise Correspondence Book 3)

Many students are acquainted with the tale of Abelard and Heloise via quite a few translations in their Correspondence from the 12th century. The seize is, they aren’t love letters in any respect, yet criminal items of a clandestine folder, components of which were rigorously hid. really the entire kinds the framework of an awesome mystery whose pretended witnesses and exponents have not desired to locate the grasp key in the past.

Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey

Baryalai Popal sees his Western-educated professors at Kabul college changed through communists. He witnesses his classmates “disappearing. ” The communist takeover uproots Popal from his family members and residential. therefore starts off Crossing the River Kabul, the real tale of Popal’s break out from Afghanistan and his eventual go back.

Additional info for Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.24 of 5 – based on 31 votes