Walk With Me - A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

From bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson comes the first full portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and her galvanic part in the greatest social movement of our era.

Sommario

• Chapter One: Another Kind of Slavery


• Chapter Two: Delta Blues


• Chapter Three: "Mississippi Appendectomy"


• Chapter Four: "Silver Rights" [Civil Rights]


• Chapter Five: Winona


• Chapter 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 Prize


• Chapter Ten: "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired."


• Chapter Eleven: "This Little Light of Mine"


• Author's Note


• Notes/Bibliography


• Index

Info autore

Dr. Kate Clifford Larson is the author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (a Wall Street Journal bestseller); Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (a New York Times bestseller); and The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln. She has consulted on feature film scripts, documentaries, museum exhibits, public history initiatives, and numerous publications, and appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, the BBC, PBS, C-Span, and NPR. Larson is currently a Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center Scholar and lives with her family outside Boston.

Riassunto

From bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson comes the first full portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and her galvanic part in the greatest social movement of our era.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kate Clifford Larson, Kate Clifford (Brandeis Women''s Studies R Larson, Larson Kate Clifford
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2021
• EAN: 9780190096847
• ISBN: 978-0-19-009684-7
• Pagine: 336
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Prose: non-fiction, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Social issues & processes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Biography and non-fiction prose, Social and ethical issues, Biography: historical, political and military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional