'Her Life Is a Model for All of Us': The Root Presents It's Lit! and Dr. Keisha Blain on the Enduring Truth of Fannie Lou Hamer
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." Fannie Lou Hamer, the sharecropper turned activist who became a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, spoke these words before the credentials committee of the Democratic National...