Book

Until I Am Free

Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Keisha N. Blain

2022

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

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.

by Stefan M. Bradley via Black Perspectives on October 6, 2022
Book Review

Why Fannie Lou Hamer Endures

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

by Claire Bond Potter via Democracy Journal on March 9, 2022
Q&A

Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s Definition of "Freedom" Still Matters

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

by Keisha N. Blain, Jamil Smith via Vox on October 21, 2021

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"Until I Am Free"

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

by Danielle L. McGuire, Peniel E. Joseph, Rhonda Williams, Stefan M. Bradley via Black Perspectives on October 3, 2022

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