Blain’s account of Black life in the Jim Crow South is important — maybe more so because she leaves none of Hamer’s personal stones unturned. This makes for a very good portrait of Hamer, but biography is only half the story.
Blain’s account of Black life in the Jim Crow South is important — maybe more so because she leaves none of Hamer’s personal stones unturned. This makes for a very good portrait of Hamer, but biography is only half the story.