This book by Asch (PhD, American history, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) tells the intertwined stories of one-time sharecropper turned civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) and staunc
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented
