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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
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ISBN10: 0807007250
ISBN13: 9780807007259
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Oct 4 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807007259
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Oct 4 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist - 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography [A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer's life. . . . Blain's book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.--New York Times Book Review
Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies, highlighting their relevance for tackling modern social issues including voter suppression, police violence, and economic inequality. We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.
--Fannie Lou Hamer A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice. 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. 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. Includes a photo insert featuring Hamer at civil rights marches, participating in the Democratic National Convention, testifying before Congress, and more.
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