Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Faith, endurance of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer revealed in new biography
By Adelle M. Banks — October 5, 2021
(RNS) — ‘She used the Bible in many different ways,’ said Hamer’s biographer. ‘She used it to shame her white oppressors who claimed also to be Christians.’
Remembering the Black female leaders of the civil rights movement
By Eboo Patel — March 24, 2021
(RNS) — The truth is, we remember much of the civil rights movement through its very visible male leaders. But there were so many women, both behind the scenes and on the front lines, who shaped the movement.
COMMENTARY: Freedom Summer volunteers inspired by more than just idealism
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove — July 10, 2014
(RNS) Fifty years after Freedom Summer, it’s easy to attribute the risks of the militant SNCC and its Freedom Summer volunteers to youthful idealism. But many who were there insist faith played an essential role.
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