Fannie Lou Hamer

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/7/2022
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer and the Meaning of Freedom in Contemporary America

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Keisha Blain responds to a round table forum on her new biography of the Mississippi freedom activist, whose thinking and leadership in the movement can inform struggles for justice today. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/4/2022
  

  Keisha Blain Relates the Freedom Dreams of Fannie Lou Hamer

  by Danielle L. McGuire

  Keisha Blain's book offers a broader portrait of Hamer as a visionary activist who understood the interconnected issues of sex, class and power that affected the Black freedom movement. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/9/2022
  

  A Marker Recognizing Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi is a Step Toward Justice

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As conservatives restrict the teaching of the history of racism in America, the town of Winona, Mississippi has taken a necessary step to memorialize the state-sanctioned jailhouse beating of Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists in 1963. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  3/14/2022
  

  An Attack on Voting Rights is an Attack on the Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer

  by Keisha N. Blain

  No one who learns the life story of Fannie Lou Hamer and the sacrifices she made for the right to vote can accept the current attacks on the Voting Rights Act. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/3/2022
  

  Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer, Past and Present

  by Nicole M. Gipson

  Keisha N. Blain's biography of the Mississippi freedom activist is an important addition to the literature, but also an excellent roadmap to teaching African American history and its linkages to present struggles for justice. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/27/2021
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer's Leadership Shows We Can't Separate Civil Rights and Economic Justice

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The author of a new biography of the Mississippi Freedom Democrat argues that Hamer's legacy shows that inequality erodes both civil rights and democracy. 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  10/5/2021
  

  Keisha Blain Joins Melissa Harris Perry and Shanta Covington to Talk Fannie Lou Hamer and Black Freedom

  Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha Blain joins us to discuss her new book, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America and the relevance of the civil and voting rights icon today.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/5/2021
  

  The Enduring Influence of Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Advocate

  by Jill Watts

  New books by Kate Clifford Larson and Keisha N. Blain aim to restore Fannie Lou Hamer to a position of prominence in the history of Black freedom struggles. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/27/2021
  

  Keisha Blain on Fannie Lou Hamer's Life and Legacy

  "It’s important to remember that activists of the 1960s were dealing with rampant misinformation too. In many cases, this misinformation was being spread by the state."

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• SOURCE: The Revealer
  6/3/2021
  

  Keisha N. Blain on Fannie Lou Hamer’s Fight for Civil Rights and Her Message for Today

  by Daniel José Camacho

  Keisha N. Blain discusses her upcoming book on the life and activist legacy of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party leader Fannie Lou Hamer, and its relevance to both grassroots politics and the fight to protect voting rights today. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/4/2021
  

  The Long Brutality

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Two police killings highlight the specifically gendered nature of state violence against Black people, and the particular ways Black women are targeted. In this respect, the history of Black Lives Matter is a long history of Black women's political activism.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/17/2021
  

  He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964

  Senator James Eastland of Mississippi justified his segregationist politics with paternalism. Conditions on his family's plantation showed otherwise. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/18/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer Risked Her Life for the Right to Vote

  Fannie Lou Hamer suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police to demand the right to vote, and challenged the Democratic Party to reject its southern segregationist branch in 1964.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/20/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer’s Dauntless Fight for Black Americans’ Right to Vote

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As Hamer and her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party colleagues pointed out to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, a “whites-only” Democratic Party representing a state in which one out of five residents were black undermined the very notion of representative democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Times (AP)
  1/25/20
  

  Marker will honor civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer

  Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and history professor C. Sade Turnipseed.

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• 10/29/19
  

  Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument

  by Matthew Crawford

  There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/4/19
  

  'God Is Not Going to Put It in Your Lap.' What Made Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Civil Rights So Radical—And So Enduring

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Hamer’s bold message to “get up and try to do something” was one that all Americans committed to change needed to hear

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8-26-14
  

  "I Question America" -- Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer's Famous Speech 50 Years Ago

  by Peter Dreier

  "I question America" is a fitting reflection of the soul-searching that the country is once again going through in the wake of the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri.

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• SOURCE: Playbill
  6-25-14
  

  Benefit Concert of Fannie Lou, New Musical About Civil Rights Activist, Will Play Carnegie Hall

  "The musical Fannie Lou tells the story of Fannie Lou Hamer's voting rights struggle through her eyes and the eyes of various fictional characters, who represent a variety of viewpoints."