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During her first year as the District of Columbia’s congressional delegate in 1991, Eleanor Holmes Norton attended nearly 500 ...

"Fannie Lou Hamer, by then a leader in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, brought Mae Bertha the tag money." Reading this book is a reminder of the deep interconnectedness of our lives ...

Her book Enfleshing Freedom: Body ... She added that Copeland belongs alongside Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Angela Davis as someone who gave “voice to black women and to all those ...

Gitlin, who spent the convention writing a daily wall paper distributed to protesters, went on to write 16 nonfiction books ... sharecropper named Fannie Lou Hamer, who at that moment was giving ...

“You must be talking about Toynbee’s book,” said Vivian ... satisfaction of seeing a Mississippi Negro woman like Fannie Lou Hamer emerge as a leader, or that meeting in Canton yesterday.

Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University; author of book “How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams” and “Black ...

Thaddeus Stevens, a White man who was a strong advocate for racial justice, fought for economic independence and land ...

As all of this shameful racist stuff has been going on more than usual, I took the time to read about a man who long ago set the standard for ...