cover image This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Kay Mills. Plume Books, $16 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27052-7

Mills draws on interviews with Hamer, her relatives, friends and colleagues to recount her emergence as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Photos. (Feb.)