Ebook {Epub PDF} For Freedoms Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Chana Kai Lee

For Freedom's Sake.: The youngest of twenty children of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer witnessed throughout her childhood the white cruelty, political exclusion, and relentless economic exploitation that defined black existence in the Delta. In this intimate biography, Chana Kai Lee documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to A Movement and a Life: For freedom's sake: the life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Lee, Chana Kai, Publication date "In this intimate biography, Chana Kai Lee documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action, her rise to national prominence as a civil rights activist, and the personal costs of her ongoing struggle to win a political User Interaction Count: More than any other individual, Fannie Lou Hamer embodied the extraordinary changes provoked in U.S. society by the civil rights movement of the s. In Chana Kai Lee, she has found a biographer worthy of her story."--George Lipsitz, author of A Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the sBrand: University of Illinois Press.

Professor Lee is the author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, which won the Willie Lee Rose Prize, awarded by the Southern Association of Women Historians, and the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians. Chana Kai Lee holds a joint appointment in history and African American Studies. She is a proud graduate of California public schools. She earned a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also holds a B.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. According to For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Chana Kai Lee, when Hamer was two years old, her family relocated to Sunflower County to work on E.W. Brandon's Ruleville plantation. A bout of polio left her with a limp from the age of five, but when Hamer was six, she joined her family working on the plantation.. Hamer was essentially tricked into picking cotton as a child by.

For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. For Freedom's Sake.: Chana Kai Lee. University of Illinois Press, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 0 Reviews. The youngest of twenty. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Chana Kai Lee, Author University of Illinois Press $32 (p) ISBN Buy this book At the Democratic National Convention. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. by. Chana Kai Lee. · Rating details · ratings · 13 reviews. The powerful story of Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up among "the poorest of the poor" in rural Mississippi and became a national figure in the civil rights movement in the s. The powerful story of Fannie Lou Hamer, who.