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Hamer, Fannie Lou.
Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Influence.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
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Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America / Keisha N. Blain.
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Blain, Keisha N., author.
Boston : Beacon Press, 2021.
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xix, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
A long fight ahead -- Let your light shine -- Tell it like it is -- We want leaders -- The special plight of black women -- An expansive vision of freedom -- Try to do something -- Until all of us are free.
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"Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe. Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured as a Black woman living in poverty in Mississippi, Hamer committed herself to making a difference in the lives of others. She refused to be sidelined in the movement and refused to be intimidated by those of higher social status and with better jobs and education. In these pages, Hamer's words and ideas take center stage, allowing us all to hear the activist's voice and deeply engage her words, as though we had the privilege to sit right beside her. More than 40 years since Hamer's death in 1977, her words still speak truth to power, laying bare the faults in American society and offering valuable insights on how we might yet continue the fight to help the nation live up to its core ideals of "equality and justice for all."" ---Provided by publisher.
Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges endured as a Black woman living in poverty in Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer committed herself to making a difference in the lives of others. She refused to be sidelined in the movement and refused to be intimidated by those of higher social status and with better jobs and education. More than 40 years since Hamer's death in 1977, her words still speak truth to power, laying bare the faults in American society and offering valuable insights on how we might yet continue the fight to help the nation live up to its core ideals of "equality and justice for all."
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