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Author Lee, Chana Kai, 1962-

Title For freedom's sake : the life of Fannie Lou Hamer / Chana Kai Lee.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.0496 H178Bl    ---  Available
Description xvi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Women in American history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index.
Contents Delta daughter -- Black woman leader -- Winona -- Local need and electoral politics -- The national stage -- Returning home -- The Mississippi freedom labor union -- Poverty, politics, and the freedom farm -- Last days.
Subject Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0252021517 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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