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Presented by the Zinn Education Project
A Collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
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'Is This America?'
50 Years Ago Sharecroppers Challenged Mississippi Apartheid, LBJ, and the Nation
By Julian Hipkins III, Teaching for Change curriculum specialist, and
Deborah Menkart, co-director of the Zinn Education Project
 | | MFDP delegates demonstrate as President Lyndon Johnson is being nominated. Center is Victoria Gray from Hattiesburg, Miss. Photo: George Ballis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. |
Fifty years ago this month, Mississippi sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. " Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?" she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Continue reading. _____________________________________________________________
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