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Articles by: Cynthia Greenlee

Cotton Bales and Jail Beatings: The Civil Rights And Farm Activism Of Fannie Lou Hamer
Black History Month 2019

Cotton Bales and Jail Beatings: The Civil Rights And Farm Activism Of Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer’s little-known work around agricultural advocacy in her native Mississippi shows that the civil rights icon was also a grassroots philosopher and practitioner of something akin to the contemporary food-justice movement.
By Cynthia Greenlee · Feb 8, 2019
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