Walk with Meĭoes justice to the full force of Hamer’s activism and example. Bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson offers the first account of Hamer’s life for a general audience, capturing and illuminating what made Hamer the electrifying force that she became when she walked onto stages across the country during the 1960s and until her death in 1977. Her permission in 1961, Hamer took her destiny into her own hands. When a white doctor sterilized her without As the Civil Rights Movement began to emerge during the 1950s, she was struggling to make a living with her husband on lands that her forebears had cleared, ploughed, and harvested for generations. Racism, poverty, and injustice permeated the cotton fields. Born in the Mississippi Delta in 1917, Hamer was the 20th child of Black sharecroppers and raised in a world in which At the DemocraticĬonvention in 1964, Hamer’s televised speech took not just Democrats but the entire nation to task for abetting racial injustice, searing the conscience of everyone who heard it. Her impassioned rhetoric electrified audiences. For millions hers was the voice that made "This Little Light of Mine" an anthem. Few figures embody the physical courage, unstinting sacrifice, and inspired heroism behind the Civil Rights movement more than Fannie Lou Hamer.
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