Walk With Me: a Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson

Walk With Me
a Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
Kate Clifford Larson, , 322 pages
San Diego Library has 2 copies
Biographer Larson delivers a moving and in-depth portrait of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). The youngest of 20 children born to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, Hamer left school at age 13 to work the fields full-time. Her long simmering passion for change led her to participate in voter registration drives organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi. Larson details the backlash to the civil rights movement in Mississippi and sheds light on the conflicts within the movement, in particular the points of contention between middle-class leaders and grassroots organizers like Hamer.
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