Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives Too Much Attention as an Orator
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a gifted orator with extraordinary charisma (Miller). But he was not the only voice for human rights during...
Fannie Lou Hamer's Audiences and AAVE
After her 1964 DNC testimony was televised, Fannie Lou Hamer finally had access to speak at mass meetings (Brooks and Houck 46) which...
"What Have We to Hail?" The One Speech We Should Study
Fannie Lou Hamer’s “What Have We to Hail?” delivered in Kentucky during the Summer of 1968 would be the speech I would choose as a...
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Prompt (containing background information) Hamer would seem to be the opposite of King. He grew up in Atlanta; his parents were...