Until We Are Free

Scholar Keisha Blain shares how Fannie Lou Hamer's life, work, and message still speak to contemporary America. A Black Perspective. |

"Despite the voluminous scholarship on Black women leaders in the movement, including the pioneering works of Barbara Ransby, Jeanne Theoharis, Vicki L. Crawford, ‎Joseph Fitzgerald, and many others, too many Americans still struggle to see Black women as significant figures in the long struggle for Black political rights. Telling Fannie Lou Hamer’s story—and believing wholeheartedly that her story is so significant that we can, and should, have multiple books written about her—is my modest attempt to bring to light the many ways Black women fundamentally shaped the civil rights movement and beyond."

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