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The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that "you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free." Historian Keisha Blain discusses how Hamer’s message resonates today.

Read more about professional author Keisha N. Blain . View the writer's qualifications and read articles written by author Keisha N. Blain at MSNBC.

<p>Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author<strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/KeishaBlain?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Keisha Blain</a></strong> joins us to discuss her new book, <em>Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America</em> and the relevance of the civil and voting rights icon today.</p>

Two new biographies, “Walk With Me,” by Kate Clifford Larson, and “Until I Am Free,” by Keisha N. Blain, recount Hamer’s struggle to open up voting to Black people in Mississippi and argue for the continued relevance of her tactics.

<p>New books by Kate Clifford Larson and Keisha N. Blain aim to restore Fannie Lou Hamer to a position of prominence in the history of Black freedom struggles. </p>