Title: Fannie Lou Hamer
Description: "This book commemorates and explores the life of one of Mississippi's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, History, African american women, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, civil rights, African americans, biography
Places: United States, Mississippi
People: Fannie Lou Hamer
Time periods: 20th century