Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Join world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs for lively conversations with the authors of scintillating, inspiring and remarkably important books about history, social justice, and the challenges of building a decent world. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org. The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Produced by Karena Joslin. Audio editing by Matt Rocker, theme song composed by Matt Rocker, performed by Dave Eggar. A kontentreal production.
Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Season 2, Episode 1: Keisha Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
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.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
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,
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