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Summary:

The youngest of twenty children born to sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Fannie Lou Hamer grew up to become a hero of the Civil Rights Movement. She participated in marches, sit-ins, and voter education training - efforts that earned her severe beatings by the police, jail time, and bullets shot into her home. Malcolm X called her "the country's number one freedom-fighting woman."

Author/Creator:

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- , author

Contributors:

Holmes, Ekua , illustrator

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Voice of freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the Civil Rights Movement [by Weatherford, C.B.]

Subjects:

Hamer, Fannie Lou — Juvenile literature

African American women civil rights workers — Biography — Juvenile literature

Civil rights workers — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature

African Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature

Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature

Hamer, Fannie Lou

1900-1999

Civil rights workers

African Americans — Civil rights

African Americans

Civil rights movements

African American women civil rights workers

United States

Genres:

History

Biographies

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Accelerated Reader MG 5.8 1.0 175361 EN.
Reading Counts 6-8 5.4 3
Caldecott Honor Book, 2016

Audience:

Preteens
Children
Ages: 10-13.
Grades: 5-8.
820L (source: Lexile)

Physical Description:

34 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm

Call Numbers:

J921 H214we

ISBNs:

9780763665319

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013957319

OCLC Numbers:

917337564

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: jlg17967927