The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

I really enjoyed reading about Mrs. Hamer. She is such an inspiration and Incredible woman..

Fannie Lou Hamer is a cornerstone for the Civil rigths Movement.There needs to be more books about Fanie Lou Hamer.Amazon needs to include books about African Americans on its Top 100 list.hire African Americans.

Just love the book a piece of my place and time in this society.

Mrs. Hamer is one of the most articulate of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and this collection is very helpful in that regard.. The introduction by the author is, however, not helpful and doesn't do Mrs. Hamer justice. There are some historical mistakes and much repetitiveness and some of the introductions are mutually contradictory. Her speeches deserve a much better collection, but if this is all there is go buy it.

Loved it! Learned so much

From this modest of beginnings, Ms. Hamer would go on to challenge the President of the United States, the National Democratic Party, members of Congress and the American people about fulfilling the promised of democracy.She was the first black women ever seated on the floor of the House and the first black Mississippians since 1882.She opposed the war in Vietnam from the beginning.She organized programs to feed poor people, tend to their ills, house them and clothes them, train them for jobs.Fannie Lou Hamer was born in the Mississippi Delta.This was the place of the Senate seat of this wild eyed racist that American has ever known. Senator Eastland (Senator Jesse Helms was a political midget compared to Eastland).This is the place where Federal registrar didn't dare shown there face and when they did they would pretend to be having business somewhere else.So this is the place where white men terrorize black people. Not just men, but women and children too.There was one more crucial element that molded this poor sharecropper into a leader_ it was anger, touched with sorrow was the lack of control over her own life. Without her knowledge or permission, Fannie Lou Hamer was sterilized in 1961.What make Fannie Lou so great is that she was born under this shear terror and oppression.

I probably have heard many of these--Mrs Hamer was the greatest person I have ever met--brave eloquent passionate humble devoutMrs. Hamer why did you have to leave us so early? Unita Blackwell was right "She was a powerful lady. God set her aside to do work"Thank you June Johnson for combing her hair when she was too weak to do it herselfThis should be required reading in every school in America

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