“We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone. But you are not free whether you are White or Black until I am free.”
Keisha N. Blain, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, MSNBC contributor brings us her new book, UNTIL I AM FREE: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. With Ibram X. Kendi (whose books on Anti-Racism have changed the way we speak of the American experience), Dr. Blain is co-editor of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Four Hundred Souls.
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Fannie Lou Hamer's 1964 Testimony before the Democratic National Convention's Credentials Committee (audio and transcript)
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