Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

Moving and well-paced bio for upper elem/middle grade. Liked that Fannie Lou's direct quotes within the poems were set off by italics, helps as a visualization for students to understand sourcing in nonfiction. The collage illustrations helped to give texture and detail to the poems.

Fannie Lou Hamer. The youngest of twenty children of sharecropper parents. Black. Mississippi-born and raised. Never enough food to eat. Cheated by the farm owners. Married and became sharecroppers themselves. Jailed, lost her work, shot at, all for trying to vote. This is her story.