For freedom's sake
Subtitle: the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Chana Kai Lee.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Hamer, Fannie Lou.; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.; African American women civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.; Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South."--BOOK JACKET.

"Offering a complex understanding of how racism, sexism, violence, and economic injustice intersected to spur the civil rights movement and to shape, and sometimes restrict, the role of women and poor people within it, Lee illuminates the abiding links between political activism and economic transformation."--BOOK JACKET.

"The definitive biography of one of the most important civil rights activists of the twentieth century, For Freedom's Sake is also a moving social history of a critical epoch in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Delta daughter; title: Black woman leader; title: Winona; title: Local need and electoral politics; title: The national stage; title: Returning home; title: The Mississippi freedom labor union; title: Poverty, politics, and the freedom farm; title: Last days.