Book Tour for UNTIL I AM FREE
Information and Dates for the Until I Am Free Book Tour
Wednesday, October 6 at 7:00PM Eastern
The Brennan Center for Justice (In collaboration with the National Civil Rights Museum) in conversation with Donna Brazile
https://www.brennancenter.org/events/until-i-am-free-fannie-lou-hamers-enduring-message-america
Thursday, October 7 at 7:00PM Eastern
Brooklyn Public Library in conversation with Alexis Coe
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/until-i-am-free-keisha-n-central-library-dweck-20211007
Friday, October 8 at 7:00PM Eastern
Harrisburg Book Festival, 7:00PM Eastern, in conversation with Damon Young
https://www.hbgbookfest.com/featured-schedule/2021/10/8/keisha-blain-until-i-am-free
Tuesday, October 12 at 7:30PM Eastern
Free Library of Philadelphia (in collaboration with Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books) in conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/?id=107763
Thursday, October 14 at 6:00PM Eastern
New-York Historical Society in conversation with Rebecca Traister
https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/until-i-am-free-conversation-fannie-lou-hamers-legacy
Friday, October 22 at 7:00PM Eastern
White Whale Bookstore in conversation with Deesha Philyaw
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-until-i-am-free-by-dr-keisha-n-blain-w-deesha-philyaw-registration-172860278747
Sunday, October 24 at 3:00PM Eastern
National Women’s History Museum in conversation with Sherie M. Randolph
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/until-i-am-free-in-conversation-with-author-dr-keisha-n-blain-tickets-162854210327
Tuesday, October 26 at 8:00PM Eastern
Commonwealth Club of California, 8:00PM Eastern, in conversation with Aimee Allison
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2021-10-26/keisha-blain-fannie-lou-hamers-enduring-message-america
Saturday, October 30 at 3:00PM Eastern
Well-Read Black Girls Festival
https://www.wellreadblackgirl.org/
Tuesday, November 2 at 7:00PM Eastern
44th and 3rd Bookseller in conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
Thursday, November 4 at 6:30PM Eastern
Busboys and Poets in conversation with Clint Smith
Wednesday, November 10 at 1:00PM Eastern
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in conversation with Jacqueline Hamer Flakes & Charles Mclaurin
Link to Facebook Live–Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Tuesday, November 16 at 9:00PM Eastern
Town Hall Seattle (in partnership with Northwest African American Museum) in conversation with LaNesha DeBardelaben
https://townhallseattle.org/event/keisha-n-blain-with-lanesha-debardelaben/
Tuesday, November 30 at 4:00PM Eastern
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, in conversation with Khalil Gibran Muhammad
https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/until-i-am-free-fannie-lou-hamers-enduring-message-america-dr-keisha-n-blain-0
More about Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
“We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”—Fannie Lou Hamer
A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice.
Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks and demonstrates how her ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe.
Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured as a Black woman living in poverty in Mississippi, Hamer committed herself to making a difference in the lives of others. She refused to be sidelined in the movement and refused to be intimidated by those of higher social status and with better jobs and education. In these pages, Hamer’s words and ideas take center stage, allowing us all to hear the activist’s voice and deeply engage her words, as though we had the privilege to sit right beside her.
More than 40 years since Hamer’s death in 1977, her words still speak truth to power, laying bare the faults in American society and offering valuable insights on how we might yet continue the fight to help the nation live up to its core ideals of “equality and justice for all.”