- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Introduction Showing Love and Telling It Like It Is
- “I Don’t Mind My Light Shining,”
- Federal Trial Testimony, Oxford, Mississippi, December 2, 1963
- Testimony Before a Select Panel on Mississippi and Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1964
- Testimony Before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22, 1964
- “We’re On Our Way,”
- “I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired,”
- Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., September 13, 1965
- “The Only Thing We Can Do Is to Work Together,”
- “What Have We to Hail?,”
- Speech on Behalf of the Alabama Delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1968
- “To Tell It Like It Is,”
- Testimony Before the Democratic Reform Committee, Jackson, Mississippi, May 22, 1969
- “To Make Democracy a Reality,”
- “America Is a Sick Place, and Man Is on the Critical List,”
- “Until I Am Free, You Are Not Free Either,”
- “Is It Too Late?,”
- “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free,”
- “If the Name of the Game Is Survive, Survive,”
- Seconding Speech for the Nomination of Frances Farenthold, Delivered at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, July 13, 1972
- Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Dr. Neil McMillen, April 14, 1972, and January 25, 1973, Ruleville, Mississippi; Oral History Program, University of Southern Mississippi
- “We Haven’t Arrived Yet,”
- Appendix Interview with Vergie Hamer Faulkner
- Acknowledgments
- Suggestions for Further Reading and Research
- Index
“To Tell It Like It Is,”
“To Tell It Like It Is,”
Speech Delivered at the Holmes County, Mississippi, Freedom Democratic Party Municipal Elections Rally in Lexington, Mississippi, May 8, 1969
- Chapter:
- (p.86) “To Tell It Like It Is,”
- Source:
- The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
- Author(s):
Maegan Parker Brooks
Davis W. Houck
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
In 1967, Fannie Lou Hamer played a role in ending seventy-four years of white-only rule in the Mississippi State Legislature when she helped Holmes County schoolteacher Robert G. Clark get elected to the state house of representatives. Clark won by a mere 116 votes over twelve-year incumbent James P. Love. On May 8, 1969, Hamer spoke at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s (MFDP) municipal elections rally at the Holmes County Courthouse in Lexington. This chapter reproduces Hamer’s speech, in which she urged blacks to remember their past persecutions and to vote for MFDP’s black candidates. Hamer concludes her speech by addressing the thorny issues of gender and politics.
Keywords: speech, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, municipal elections, rally, blacks, gender, politics, Mississippi
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Introduction Showing Love and Telling It Like It Is
- “I Don’t Mind My Light Shining,”
- Federal Trial Testimony, Oxford, Mississippi, December 2, 1963
- Testimony Before a Select Panel on Mississippi and Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1964
- Testimony Before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22, 1964
- “We’re On Our Way,”
- “I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired,”
- Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., September 13, 1965
- “The Only Thing We Can Do Is to Work Together,”
- “What Have We to Hail?,”
- Speech on Behalf of the Alabama Delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1968
- “To Tell It Like It Is,”
- Testimony Before the Democratic Reform Committee, Jackson, Mississippi, May 22, 1969
- “To Make Democracy a Reality,”
- “America Is a Sick Place, and Man Is on the Critical List,”
- “Until I Am Free, You Are Not Free Either,”
- “Is It Too Late?,”
- “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free,”
- “If the Name of the Game Is Survive, Survive,”
- Seconding Speech for the Nomination of Frances Farenthold, Delivered at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, July 13, 1972
- Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer by Dr. Neil McMillen, April 14, 1972, and January 25, 1973, Ruleville, Mississippi; Oral History Program, University of Southern Mississippi
- “We Haven’t Arrived Yet,”
- Appendix Interview with Vergie Hamer Faulkner
- Acknowledgments
- Suggestions for Further Reading and Research
- Index
