That same idea was powerfully articulated more than half a century ago by Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist born on Oct. 6, 1917. Try logging in through your institution for access. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women’s Political Caucus. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this … I don’t know whether I’ll have to holler or not because I am just used to talking loud. History 2 stars for the editing choices made here, 5 stars for miss hamerThis is a beautifully edited and organized collection that captures the depth and range of Hamer's work both before and beyond the 1964 DNC speech. My name is Fannie Lou Hamer and I exist at 626 East Lafayette Street in Ruleville, Mississippi. She used her knowledge in grassroots activism on behalf of voters’ rights, African Americans, and civil rights.
Source: Fannie Lou Hamer, “We’re On Our Way,” Speech before a mass meeting held at the Negro Baptist School in Indianola, Mississippi (September 1964) in Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck, ed., The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 47–56. "The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer" is a collection of Fannie Lou Hamer's most famous speeches collected by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. I’m happy to be here tonight. Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to … She understood the challenges ahead and she empathized with the fear, and even hopelessness, many felt that evening—and still feel today. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by Malcolm X Paperback $14.00. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2011). I too got the same treatment that Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Devine got, and some of the difference that I received in the Second Congressional District, whereas one man at Nesbit, Mississippi, went to get his name certified as a registrar, Mr. Williams, he was harassed and was told we wasn’t doing anything but stirring up trouble.In another case, Miss Penny Patch was working in...Thank you very much, Annie Devine. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck Abstract. © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt12f641 But even more, she wanted to ensure that others would also benefit from this knowledge. Start by marking “The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is” as Want to Read: Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with MalMost people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The editors also include the last full-length oral history interview Hamer granted, a recent oral history interview Brooks conducted with Hamer's daughter, as well as a bibliography of additional primary and secondary sources. xi-2) MAEGAN PARKER BROOKS and DAVIS W. HOUCK “The education has got to be changed in these institutions,” Fannie Lou Hamer boldly declared while addressing students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lee, Chana Kai, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, 2000. INTRODUCTION Showing Love and Telling It Like It Is The Rhetorical Practices of Fannie Lou Hamer (pp. Freedman: Mrs. Hamer, what is it that brings you before the panel today?Mrs.
“The only thing they could do to me was to kill me,” she noted, “and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”In a fiery speech at the DNC in Atlantic City on Aug. 22, 1964, Hamer recounted the many times white supremacists targeted her life—and the lives of those she loved—simply because of her determination to exercise her voting rights. After I had sent President Johnson a telegram telling him to bring the people home from the Dominican Republic and Vietnam—and I said to President Johnson at that time, “If this society of yours is a Great Society, God knows I would hate to live in a bad one.”But at that time, at that time, we felt very alone because when we start saying, “The war is wrong in Vietnam,” well, people looked at us...Thank you very kindly.