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How can we help students develop resilience to persevere in the
face of setbacks? How can we ignite a drive that will inspire them
to sustain effort even through difficulty? This book equips
teachers to deliberately cultivate psychosocial skills, including
self-awareness, problem solving to deal with setbacks, assertive
interpersonal skills, and intellectual risk-taking. By teaching
students to be aware of how their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
affect their pursuit of excellence, students can learn to tackle
challenges and setbacks that they might experience as they reach to
achieve. Lessons include engaging activities and curriculum
connections, covering topics related to perfectionism, mindset,
grit, stress, procrastination, social-emotional intelligence, and
more. Grades 4-
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a heart-wrenching testimony
before the Democratic National Convention's (DNC) Credentials
Committee. In this speech, Hamer represented both the concerns of
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the limits of
American democracy when she proclaimed: "I question America. Is
this the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have
to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be
threatened daily? Because we want to live as decent human beings,
in America?" This is the speech that sent President Lyndon B.
Johnson into a state of outright panic, as he diverted the media's
attention away from Hamer's stinging indictment of the nation he
led. This is the speech that left most Credentials Committee
members in tears, forced Johnson to negotiate with the MFDP, and
compelled the Democratic Party to vow they would never again seat a
segregated delegation. And this is the speech that television
networks, made wise to Johnson's diversionary tactics, replayed
during their evening programs, thereby bringing Fannie Lou Hamer
into the living rooms of Americans across the nation. As
significant as the 1964 DNC speech is, this book will underscore
that Hamer's testimony was but one moment within a remarkable life
that spanned fifty-nine tumultuous years in the history of American
race relations. For the first forty-four years of her life, Hamer
lived on sharecropping plantations, all the while learning life
lessons from her family, the Black Baptist religious tradition, and
from the oppressive white supremacist mores surrounding her. Once
Hamer's life path intersected with the mid-century Civil Rights
Movement, she spent fifteen years (1962-1977) traveling from the
South to the North-and even to the West Coast of Africa-advocating
civil rights, economic justice, and interracial cooperation. Hamer
shared the platform with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, who
introduced her to an audience in Harlem as "the country's number
one freedom fighting woman." This accessible biography will enrich
public memory about Hamer by telling not only the significant story
of her riveting testimony, but also by recounting a life filled
with triumphs, tragedies, and accompanying lessons for contemporary
audiences.
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou
Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s
black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle
against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical
biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how
she employed symbols - images, words, and even material objects
such as the ballot, food, and clothing - to construct persuasive
public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social
change. Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and
recent interviews with Hamer's friends, family, and fellow
activists, Maegan Parker Brooks moves chronologically through
Hamer's life. Brooks recounts Hamer's early influences, her
intersection with the black freedom movement, and her rise to
prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Brooks also
considers Hamer's lesser-known contributions to the fight against
poverty and to feminist politics before analyzing how Hamer is
remembered posthumously. The book concludes by emphasizing what
remains rhetorical about Hamer's biography, using the 2012 statue
and museum dedication in Hamer's hometown of Ruleville,
Mississippi, to examine the larger social, political, and
historiographical implications of her legacy. The sustained
consideration of Hamer's wide-ranging use of symbols and the
reconstruction of her legacy provided within the pages of A Voice
That Could Stir an Army enrich understanding of this key historical
figure. This book also demonstrates how rhetorical analysis
complements historical reconstruction to explain the dynamics of
how social movements actually operate.
Most 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. 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. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been
buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement
veterans. After years of combing library archives, government
documents, and private collections across the country, Maegan
Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck have selected twenty-one of
Hamer's most important speeches and testimonies.
As the first volume to exclusively showcase Hamer's talents as
an orator, this book includes speeches from the better part of her
fifteen-year activist career delivered in response to occasions as
distinct as a Vietnam War Moratorium Rally in Berkeley, California,
and a summons to testify in a Mississippi courtroom.
Brooks and Houck have coupled these heretofore unpublished
speeches and testimonies with brief critical descriptions that
place Hamer's words in context. 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. "The
Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer" demonstrates that there is still much
to learn about and from this valiant black freedom movement
activist.
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou
Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s
black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle
against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical
biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how
she employed symbols-- images, words, and even material objects
such as the ballot, food, and clothing--to construct persuasive
public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social
change. Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts and
recent interviews with Hamer's friends, family, and fellow
activists, Maegan Parker Brooks moves chronologically through
Hamer's life. Brooks recounts Hamer's early influences, her
intersection with the black freedom movement, and her rise to
prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Brooks also
considers Hamer's lesser-known contributions to the fight against
poverty and to feminist politics before analyzing how Hamer is
remembered posthumously. The book concludes by emphasizing what
remains rhetorical about Hamer's biography, using the 2012 statue
and museum dedication in Hamer's hometown of Ruleville,
Mississippi, to examine the larger social, political, and
historiographical implications of her legacy. The sustained
consideration of Hamer's wide-ranging use of symbols and the
reconstruction of her legacy provided within the pages of A Voice
That Could Stir an Army enrich understanding of this key historical
figure. This book also demonstrates how rhetorical analysis
complements historical reconstruction to explain the dynamics of
how social movements actually operate.
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