Description: The first collection of speeches from one of the movement's valiant firebrands
Brief description: Davis W. Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. He is author of Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer; coauthor of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press; and coeditor of Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 and The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also the founder of the Emmett Till Archive at FSU and is partnering with the West Tallahatchie School District in the Mississippi Delta to bring Till-themed archival documents to high school students.
Review Quotes: The single best primary source anthology available for studying the grassroots sharecropper activist turned warrior--P. Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs "CHOICE, January 2015 issue"