Title: For freedom's sake
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: History, Biography, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, African Americans, Civil rights workers, African American women civil rights workers, 20th century, African American women, Hamer, fannie lou, 1918-1977, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states
Places: Mississippi, United States
People: Fannie Lou Hamer
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E185.97.H35 L44 1999