For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in American History)

Type

Book

Authors

Chana Kai Lee

ISBN 10

0252069366

ISBN 13

9780252069369

Tags

Black Feminism, Biographies and Memoirs, History, Activism, Feminism/Feminist Thought, Women of Color, Civil Rights

Description

A biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most important civil rights activists of the 20th century. It documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action and the personal costs of her struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South. - from Amzon

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