Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Audience
Middle School
Uniform Title
Summary
Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
Contents
- Sunflower County, Mississippi
- Delta Blues
- Spoiled
- My mother taught me
- Fair
- Not everyone could move up north
- Worse off than dogs
- Motherhood
- Literacy test
- On the move
- The price of freedom
- SNCC ("Snick")
- The beating
- Injustice
- Running
- Freedom summer
- 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Africa
- Washington
- Black power
- America's problem
- No rest
- Author's note
- Time line
- Source notes
- Selected bibliography
- Copyright acknowledgements.
Subjects
- African American women civil rights workers > Biography > Juvenile poetry.
- Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Juvenile poetry.
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile poetry.
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Juvenile poetry.
- African American women civil rights workers > Poetry.
- Civil rights workers > Poetry.
- Civil rights movements > History > 20th century > Poetry.
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Poetry.
- African Americans > Biography > Poetry.
- Women > Biography > Poetry.
- Hamer, Fannie Lou > Juvenile poetry.
- Hamer, Fannie Lou > Poetry.