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Maegan Parker Brooks
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Maegan Parker Brooks teaches in the Civic Communication and Media Department and the American Ethnic Studies Program at Willamette University in Salem, OR. Brooks also directs Find Your Voice: The Online Resource for Fannie Lou Hamer Studies, a website developed in partnership with civil rights scholars and public school teachers in the Mississippi Delta. Brooks' previous books about Fannie Lou Hamer are The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, co-edited with Davis W. Houck, and A Voice that Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015.