The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH

212 Suggestions for Further Reading and Research MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS Fannie Lou Hamer (FLH) Papers and Accompanying Audiotapes, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Oral History Collection, Civil Rights Documentation Project, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Papers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia Fannie Lou Hamer File, Mary McLeod Bethune Museum and Archives, Washington, D.C. Fannie Lou Hamer, Vertical File, Funeral, and Tougaloo College Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Jackson, Mississippi George Breitman Papers, New York University, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, New York Moses Moon Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., National Museum of American History Program in African American Culture Project South Papers, Stanford University, Special Collections, Stanford, California Civil Rights and Race Relations Collections, University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections, Oxford, Mississippi Civil Rights Collection, Fannie Lou Hamer Papers (microfilm), Measure for Measure Files, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Files, and Sweet Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin Bernice Robinson Papers, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 213 Further Reading and Research Sue Sojourner Lorenzi Papers, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi INTERVIEWS AND ORAL HISTORIES Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Jack Minnis, March 17, 1964, Winona, Mississippi , Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Archives Department , Atlanta, Georgia. Excerpts of Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Colin Edwards, 1965, Collected Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer, Pacifica Archives, North Hollywood, California. Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Project South, 1965, MFDP Chapter 55, Box 6, Folder 160, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford , California. Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Anne Romaine, 1966, MFDP Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin. Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Robert Wright, August 9, 1968, Oral History Collection, Civil Rights Documentation Project, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. Oral History Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Neil R. McMillen for the Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi, April 14, 1972. Part II of McMillen Interview, January 25, 1973. TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS United States of America v. Earle Wayne Patridge, Thomas J. Herod, Jr., William Surrell , John L. Basinger and Charles Thomas Perkins. U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi, Western Division, Criminal Action No. WCR6343. National Archives and Records Administration, Southeastern Region, Morrow, Georgia. ARTICLES AND BOOKS Asch, Chris Meyers. The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Norton, 2008. Belfrage, Sally. Freedom Summer. New York: Viking, 1965. Bramlett-Solomon, Sharon. “Civil Rights Vanguard in the Deep South: Newspaper Portrayal of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964–1977.” Journalism Quarterly (1991): 515–21. Breitman, George, ed. Malcolm X Speaks. New York: Grove Press, 1966. Brevard, Lisa Pertillar. “‘Will the Circle be Unbroken’: African-American Women’s Spirituality in Sacred Song Traditions.” In My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality, edited by Gloria Wade-Gayles. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. 214 Further Reading and Research Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, ed. Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925–1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. Carawan, Guy, and Candy Carawan. We Shall Overcome!: Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. New York: Oak Press, 1963. ———. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Freedom Movement. New York: Oak Press, 1968. Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1981. ———. “1965: A Decisive Turning Point in the Long Struggle for Voting Rights.” The Crisis 112 (July–August 2005): 16–20. Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin, eds. Sisters in the Struggle. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Cortez, Jayne. “Big Fine Woman from Ruleville (for Fannie Lou Hamer).” Black Collegian 9 (May/June 1979): 90. DeMuth, Jerry. “Tired of Being Sick and Tired.” The Nation, June 1, 1964, 548–51. Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Egerton, John. A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South. New York: MacMillan, 1970. “Fannie Lou ‘Tell It Like It Is.’” Harvard Crimson, November 23, 1968, 1. Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. Seattle: Open Hand, 1985. Gray, Lloyd. “The Glitter Is Gone, but the Fight Goes On.” Delta Democrat Times, October 3, 1976, 1, 12. Griffin, Farah Jasmine. “DNC Day 4: Remembering...