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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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We Are Still Dealing With Acts of Violence to Day

I think about hamer with a lot of other leaders in this regard at we find ourselves looking back at them. And it just pains me that we have to see people go through so much hardship in order to get to the point where we ally lionize them. It's hard, because when i teach courses on the civil rights movement, sometimes i will have students who say to me, listen, we can talk about the law,. but in the end, what's the point? You know, electoral politics, it has all these limitations.

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