50 years ago Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and the thousands they mentored were breathing in Mississippi. And some were not breathing. 50 years ago the bodies of James Cheney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were found buried in Mississippi where they had been fighting for Civil Rights and investigating the firebombing of just the type of church Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer were filling with vision and song. 50 years ago Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and everyone in the revolutionary radius of their earshot was clear about the significance of Mississippi and the possibility of a Mississippi where black people and everyone who believed in freedom could vote and breathe, and explore their brilliance, and breathe, and feed their families, and breathe, and walk the land day or night in safety. Where visionaries could go to sleep and wake up not firebombed but breathing. Where visionaries could walk a dirt road and reach their destination breathing, not dragged to death.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:14:33 +0000
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