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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America

★ Smithsonian Magazine – 10 Best History Books of the Year

Keisha Blain uses Until I Am Free to investigate fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America through a carefully framed historical account. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of history and political science. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 2021
Format: Print edition
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780807061503

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History: Women (History)Political Science: Civil Rights Social Science: Ethnic Studies – African American Studies

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