Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
Carole Boston Weatherford (Author), Ekua Holmes (Illustrator), Candlewick Press (Publisher)
"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
Print Book, English, 2018
First paperback edition
Candlewick Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, 2018