Walk with Me: A Biography of Civil Rights Leader Fannie Lou Hamer

In this biography, award-winning historian and biographer Kate Clifford Larson offers a fresh and stirring reappraisal of Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and impact on the Civil Rights Movement, and illuminates the forces that made her an electrifying presence when she walked onto stages across the country during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Larson digs deep into Hamer’s history, uncovering her family roots, personal life, and reveals recently opened FBI records, secret Oval Office tapes, new interviews, and more, to uncover never-seen details about Hamer’s life. Joining the author in conversation will be author, activist, and civil rights leader, Joyce Ladner.

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