Maegan Parker Brooks

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.