KEEP HOPE ALIVE with REV. JESSE JACKSON
Sunday, March 11, 2012
TOPIC: Fannie Lou Hamer, the SELMA to MONTGOMERY MARCH Commemoration, and the unfinished business of securing the vote for every American…
This past week we re-created the historic 54-mile Selma/Montgomery March...
This watershed event gave way to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which singularly enfranchised more Americans than any legislative measure in our history…
There are many martyrs and unsung heroes of this struggle---Jimmie Lee Jackson, Rev. James Reeb, and Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, among them…But, one who far too often goes unmentioned is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer…
One of the organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)---Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)…
History resounds with searing moral appeal that she made for the seating of the MFDP at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey…
But, what about her speeches at the 1968 and 1972 Democratic Conventions? Just who was this American Hero?
Let’s talk with Meaghan Parker Brooks---the co-author of THE SPEECHES OF FANNIE LOU HAMER: To Tell It Like It Is…
Join us in this discussion about Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and works---this woman to whom we owe so much…Someone about whom we know so comparatively little…And, let us talk about the unfinished work of securing the vote for every American…
And, rounding out our discussion today are:
- TERRY O’NEILL, the President of NOW---The National Organization of Women…
- ATTY. BARBARA ARNWINE, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law…
- KEVIN GRAY, noted author, organizer and former President of the South Carolina ACLU…
- DANNY SCHECHTER, Emmy Award Winning Producer/Documentarian
- Dr. Max Wolff, noted economist and HUFFPO blogger…
