Season 2, Episode 1: Keisha Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

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John Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning historian, Dr.
Keisha Blain, as they discuss her latest book, Until I Am Free:
Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America.

Together, they will situate Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political
thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm
X, and Rosa Parks while illustrating how her ideas remain salient
for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling
systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe.


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Footnotes:


Fannie Lou Hamer

Civil Rights Movement

1964 Democratic National Convention

Hamer's Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964

White Supremacy

Voter Suppression in the United States 

Sharecropping

Literacy Test

Jim Crow South

Apartheid

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Second-class Citizen

“Mississippi Appendectomy”

Forced Sterilization

Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist, Savagely Beaten in
Mississippi Jail

Intersectionality

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global
Struggle for Freedom 

The Working Poor



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