Presents a picture book biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, youngest of twenty children born to African American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, who grew up to become a hero of the civil rights movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.

A biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.