Fannie Lou Hamer

Is this America?

By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.

An online roundtable on a new biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.

Mississippi makes a move to confront a shameful episode from the past.

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”

The activist did not learn about her right to vote until she was 44, but once she did, she vigorously fought for black voting rights

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

My grandmother and the fight over the 1964 Mississippi delegation.

Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.

What my father saw in Mississippi.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

The story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and was denied.

The Bob Dylan film forefronts a conflict between acoustic and electric music, while ignoring how the Vietnam War divided folk musicians.

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.