{"product_id":"walk-with-me-9780190096847","title":"Walk with Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson comes the first full portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and her galvanic part in the greatest social movement of our era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn urgent story for our times, Walk With Me hurls readers headlong into the violent and repressive context of rural Mississippi before voting was a protected right for all Americans, even as it paints a moving picture of indelible courage and breathtaking transformation. Historian Kate Larson does not withhold the excruciating details of Civil Rights era activism and backlash in this book; rather, she carefully pairs these violent accounts with the uplifting moments of song, food, faith, and resilience that characterized Fannie Lou Hamer's family and community life. Larson demonstrates once again that she is an adept biographer with an eye for the contexts and character traits that shaped ordinary people into extraordinary agents of change. * Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake *\u003cbr\u003eKate Larson has captured the fullness and simple grandeur of the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. For the first time, Larson has shared with us the context of Hamer's struggles and triumphs as a daughter of the Mississippi Delta. This work is an intimate portrait of a life that represents the best that America has to offer. * Dr. Leslie-Burl McLemore, Professor Emeritus, Jackson State University, Founding Director, Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy *\u003cbr\u003eKate Clifford Larson's page-turning biography of Fannie Lou Hamer takes readers on the journey of a woman born into the grinding poverty and racism of the Mississippi Delta who rose to become the voice of the unheard and the conscience of a nation. Based on prodigious research and extensive interviews with those who knew Hamer, Walk with Me is a masterpiece of historical scholarship, a layered portrait of an unlikely hero of the civil rights movement who gave her life for freedom. * Dr. Joyce Ladner, Mississippi Civil Rights veteran and former interim president of Howard University *\u003cbr\u003eFor every situation, for every generation, for all trying times, God sends forth a leader cloaked in spirit, motivated by faith, and often with the voice of an Angel. This book envelops the reader in Fannie Lou Hamer and the events that shaped her life during the revolutionary times of the 1960's Civil Rights movement. It will be of great interest to anyone fighting racial, sex and cultural bias. * Frank Smith, Jr., Mississippi Civil Rights veteran, Executive Director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Freedom Foundation and Museum, Washington, D.C. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Another Kind of Slavery  Chapter Two: Delta Blues  Chapter Three: \"Mississippi Appendectomy\"   Chapter Four: \"Silver Rights\" [Civil Rights]  Chapter Five: Winona  Chapter Six: \"They had guns; they had dogs.\"   Chapter Seven: \"No one who went to Mississippi returned the same.\"  Chapter Eight: \"Until all men are free, nobody's free.\"   Chapter Nine: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize  Chapter Ten: \"Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired.\"  Chapter Eleven: \"This Little Light of Mine\"  Author's Note  Notes\/Bibliography  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524549517655,"sku":"9780190096847","price":22.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190096847.jpg?v=1731857212","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walk-with-me-9780190096847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}