Our April Saturday Webinar was about 20th Century American social and political activist and reformer Fannie Lou Hamer. This program took place on 10 April 2021 at 11am ET.

Panelists:

• Dr. Chris Burkett, Ashland University
• Dr. Sarah Beth Kitch, University of Missouri
• Dr. Jay Green, Covenant College

Suggested Readings:

• Testimony Before Congress, Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
• Voting Rights Speech, Lyndon Johnson, 1965
• What Have We To Hail?, Fannie Lou Hamer, 1968
• America Is a Sick Place…, Fannie Lou Hamer, 1970
• Alabama Literacy Test (Original)

Readings and Resources Mentioned in the Live Program:

• The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like It Is
• American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
• God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
• A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
• 1977: A Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
• PBS – The Black Church