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© 2021 by Keisha N. Blain

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Jacket image: Photo by Ken Thompson, © The General Board of
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permission of Global Ministries.

Text design and composition by Kim Arney

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names Blain, Keisha N., author.
Title: Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer’s enduring message
to America / Keisha N. Blain.
Other titles: Fannie Lou Hamer’s enduring message to America
Description: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021019372 (print) | LCCN 2021019373 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780807061503 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780807061527 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hamer, Fannie Lou. | Hamer, Fannie Lou—Influence. |
African American women civil rights
workers—Biography. | Civil rights workers—United States—Biography. | African Americans—Civil
rights—History. | Civil rights movements—United States—History. |
African Americans—Civil rights—Mississippi.
Classification: LCC E185.97.H35 B53 2021 (print) | LCC E185.97.H35
(ebook) | DDC 323.092 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021019372
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021019373