A leader of the civil rights movement that you’ve never heard of
Sep 16, 2021
3 minutes
Fannie Lou Hamer had been letting her light shine ever since her father put her on the table to sing the gospel song “This Little Light of Mine” as a child, but as a Black woman in Mississippi during Jim Crow, much of the world didn’t see her value.
Kate Clifford Larson’s book “Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer” brings her story and eventual emergence as a civil rights leader into view, providing a
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