Davis W. Houck
Davis W. Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. He is author of Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer; coauthor of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press; and coeditor of Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965 and The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also the founder of the Emmett Till Archive at FSU and is partnering with the West Tallahatchie School District in the Mississippi Delta to bring Till-themed archival documents to high school students.
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
The first collection of speeches from one of the movement’s valiant firebrands
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
An anthology of speeches providing eloquent evidence of the powerful contribution women made to the struggle
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
An analysis of the media’s reaction to the lynching of a young black man
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
A rhetorical interrogation of the pervasive claim that unidentified Black bodies were discovered during investigations into one of Freedom Summer’s most widely known events