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Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement

Weatherford, Carole Boston 1956- (author.). Holmes, Ekua (illustrator.). Candlewick Press, (publisher.).

Summary: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson's interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats.

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  • ISBN: 0763665312
  • ISBN: 9780763665319
  • Physical Description: 34 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2015].

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 -- Price of freedom -- SNCC ("Snick") -- Beating -- Injustice -- Running -- Freedom summer -- 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey -- Africa -- Washington -- Black power -- America's problem -- No rest.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 10-14.
820L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.8 1 175361.
Awards Note:
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2016
Caldecott Honor Book, 2016
John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, 2016
Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2016
Subject: Mississippi Race relations Juvenile literature
Civil rights movements Mississippi History 20th century Juvenile literature
Civil rights workers United States Biography Juvenile literature
African Americans Civil rights Mississippi History 20th century Juvenile literature
African American women civil rights workers Biography Juvenile literature
Mississippi Freedom Project Juvenile literature
Hamer, Fannie Lou Juvenile poetry
Hamer, Fannie Lou Juvenile literature
Genre: Biographies.
Poetry.
Picture books.

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  • 84 of 93 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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