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.

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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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