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Walk with me kate clifford larson5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1961, while seeking treatment for pelvic pain, Hamer was sterilized without her consent, an experience that left her furious and “fueled her long simmering passion for change.” Soon thereafter, she began participating in voter registration drives organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi. The youngest of 20 children born to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, Hamer left school at age 13 to work the fields full-time after an accident sidelined her mother, Ella, a “fierce and protective” woman known to carry a gun in order to protect her children from racial abuse. Biographer Larson ( Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter) delivers a moving and in-depth portrait of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). ![]()
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