The OverExplainer: What Do Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Marsha P. Johnson And Tarana Burke Have In Common?
These are all women who disrupted history with their activism.
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.