Let America Be America Again

social, and economic life? This is the question of the Negro in American life. Until he has faced and settled that question, he cannot inform his environment with reference to his own life, whatever may be his preparation or his pretensions.

is a manifesto, deeply rooted in history, for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us all to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual from the past as we confront contemporary concerns, many of which consumed Hamer’s mind during her lifetime. More than forty years since Hamer’s death, her words