Kay Mills (1941–2011)
Autor von This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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Kay Mills, freelance writer, worked for the Los Angeles Times for 13 years, including a stint on its editorial board. She has a B.A. in political science from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in history from Northwestern University. In addition to her work at the Times, Mills worked for mehr anzeigen Senator Edmund Muskie during the 1970s and for the Newhouse newspaper chain. Kay Mills's books include A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page and This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a biography of the civil rights activist from Mississippi. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Her times, and life in Mississippi in the 1940s - 1970s, were as difficult as life could be for anyone in the United States. The agony of Jim Crow days has to be almost unbelievable to anyone who believes in a "post-racial" existence, or that black people should just "get over it". So-called "freedom" was much closer to slavery, especially in the rural South, than a person born in current times could possibly believe.
In all her dealings with civil rights heroes and the miserable villainous racist rulers, Eastland, Stennis and their ilk, Fannie Lou was a larger light who shines as inspiration for all people and especially for women who are still rising up angry.
Quotes:
"There were many strong leaders in Mississippi, but she was a cut above" - Rims Barber, fellow activist
"Charles Evers speculated that whites, accustomed to having black women working in their homes, were not as threatened by them as by black men."
"At one point, the Hamers received a $9000 water bill. How, she asked, could she owe so much when their house had no running water?"
"I would stress her determination no matter what she was talking about, and people caught this spirit." - Dorothy Cotton, activist
"She made them (her black neighbors) face an unambiguous moral choice in an amoral world; she would not let them off the hook. They might have nothing, but they still felt they had something to lose."
"She is a universal aunt...when word of her arrival at a house gets about, that place begins quietly to fill up with people come to warm themselves on her spirit." - Paule Marshall, author
"There will always be some hellcats even the devil ain't gonna want." - Fannie Lou Hamer… (mehr)