- 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
“What Have We to Hail?,”
“What Have We to Hail?,”
Speech Delivered in Kentucky, Summer 1968
- Chapter:
- (p.74) “What Have We to Hail?,”
- Source:
- The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
- Author(s):
Maegan Parker Brooks
Davis W. Houck
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
In the summer of 1968, Fannie Lou Hamer addressed a predominantly white audience in Kentucky in which she shared her first attempt at voter registration. This chapter reproduces Hamer’s speech, which highlighted both the absurd arbitrariness of Jim Crow justice and the potentially lethal consequences of expressing one’s citizenship rights in the Mississippi Delta. Hamer also talked about her nationally prominent roles at Atlantic City in 1964 and her attempts to win a congressional seat in 1965, as well as the murder of Emmett Till. Furthermore, she called for interracial unity and defended the ideal of integration from the erroneous attacks of its detractors.
Keywords: speech, Fannie Lou Hamer, Kentucky, voter registration, Jim Crow, justice, citizenship rights, Mississippi, murder, Emmett Till
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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
