Until I am free, Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America, Keisha N. Blain
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Until I am free, Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America, Keisha N. Blain
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
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platesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Until I am free
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1230459987
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Keisha N. Blain
Sub title
Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America
Summary
"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
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adult
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Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America
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- Biographies
- Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Biography
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Défenseurs des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- African Americans + Civil rights -- Mississippi
- African American women civil rights workers -- Biography
- Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines -- Biographies
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Influence
- African Americans + Civil rights + History
- Noirs américains + Droits -- Mississippi
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
- Noirs américains + Droits + Histoire
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- Biographies
- Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Biography
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Défenseurs des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- African Americans + Civil rights -- Mississippi
- African American women civil rights workers -- Biography
- Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines -- Biographies
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Influence
- African Americans + Civil rights + History
- Noirs américains + Droits -- Mississippi
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
- Noirs américains + Droits + Histoire
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