The Life of a Civil Rights Icon

This book explores the life of one of America's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Hamer fought her entire life to expand freedom and basic rights to African Americans in the United States.

“A new biography of the woman from rural Mississippi who, through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, came to be a major activist for civil rights.”—Library Journal

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