Who was Fannie Lou Hamer and what was her contribution to the black rights movement?

The granddaughter of enslaved laborer, how did she rise to prominence in the Civil Rights movements?

Dr. Keisha N. Blain joined Thom to talk about Fannie Lou Hamer

Dr. Keisha Blain is the Historian & Associate Professor of History-University of Pittsburgh / President-African American Intellectual History Society / Co-Editor (w/ Ibram X. Kendi) of the new book, Four Hundred Souls / Author, Set the World On Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom and, the forthcoming, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Vision of America

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