"Is This America?"

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  • Author(s): McCabe, Suzanne
  • Source:
    Junior Scholastic. 3/7/2005, Vol. 107 Issue 14, p16-19. 4p. 1 Color Photograph, 5 Black and White Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DRAMA; THEATER; HAMER, Fannie Lou, 1917-1977; HUMAN rights; SOCIAL conditions of women
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      The article presents a brief narration of the theatrical production "Is This America," by Olivia Charles. The play describes the story of Fannie Lou Hamer, a woman who risked her life to fight injustice in the U.S. Lou Hamer is a sharecropper's daughter and voting-rights activist. Lou Hamer's husband, Bob Moses, is a civil rights leader in the U.S. Lou Hamer was born in 1917 in Mississippi. Her parents were sharecroppers. The youngest of 20 children, Lou Hamer grew up in a wooden shack without electricity and running water. She lived most of her life in Ruleville, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.