Winter 2021

Photo caption

Portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer by Louis Draper for Essence magazine.

—Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971, Louis Draper, National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art © Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust, Nell D. Winston, trustee

Winter 2021

Volume 42, Issue 1

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