For freedom's sake
the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
by Chana Kai Lee
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"In this intimate biography, Chana Kai Lee documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action, her rise to national prominence as a civil rights activist, and the personal costs of her ongoing struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South."--BOOK JACKET.
"Offering a complex understanding of how racism, sexism, violence, and economic injustice intersected to spur the civil rights movement and to shape, and sometimes restrict, the role of women and poor people within it, Lee illuminates the abiding links between political activism and economic transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
"The definitive biography of one of the most important civil rights activists of the twentieth century, For Freedom's Sake is also a moving social history of a critical epoch in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Biography, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, African Americans, Civil rights workers, African American women civil rights workers, 20th century, African American women, Hamer, fannie lou, 1918-1977, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united statesPeople
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For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in American History)
May 25, 2000, University of Illinois Press
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For freedom's sake: the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
1999, University of Illinois Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index.
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"Fannie Lou Hamer's path to civil rights leadership was not inevitable or pre-ordained."
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