Never Turn Back - The Life Of Fannie Lou Hamer

Duration: 58

Creator: Rediscovery Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents Fannie Lou Hamer, the great heroine of the bitter struggle for justice in Mississippi, speaking of non-violence and black power. Features a chronicle of a movement and a people in the songs and the words of the Southern Black. , A portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi who mobilized change and political participation for Blacks in the South. Hamer recollects the 1960's civil rights movement in Mississippi and the creation of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party (MDFP). Actress-dancer Debbie Allen narrates this collage of footage, drawings and interviews with Hamer and other veterans of the civil rights movement.

Complete Record: Presents Fannie Lou Hamer, the great heroine of the bitter struggle for justice in Mississippi, speaking of non-violence and black power. Features a chronicle of a movement and a people in the songs and the words of the Southern Black. , A portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi who mobilized change and political participation for Blacks in the South. Hamer recollects the 1960's civil rights movement in Mississippi and the creation of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party (MDFP). Actress-dancer Debbie Allen narrates this collage of footage, drawings and interviews with Hamer and other veterans of the civil rights movement. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.