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Cover Fannie Lou Hamer
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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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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Fannie Lou Hamer
“The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer”

How a would-be voter became a civil rights legend

Rosalind Early
Kevin Young, editor of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Black Poetry Anthologized

An Interview with Kevin Young

Humanities Staff

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What Zora Went Looking For

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Charles King
The 1921 Tulsa Massacre

What Happened to Black Wall Street

Kweku Larry Crowe
Thabiti Lewis
Rereading Darkwater

W.E.B. DuBois 100 years ago

Chad Williams
Why Maya Angelou Partnered with Hallmark

For one thing, she liked a challenge

Ayesha K. Hardison
Aspiring Artists
Amy Lifson
William Lanson Shaped New Haven

Connecticut

Stacey Close
Executive Function with New Mexico’s Brandon Johnson
Peter BG Shoemaker
Recent NEH Grants
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Editor's Note
David Skinner
Black on Black: Louis Draper Made His Subjects Visible
Erina Duganne

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