For Freedom's Joke Analysis

For Freedom’s Sake is about a major civil right activist named Fannie Lou Hamer. While most people wouldn’t remember who were the ones who fought in the times of struggle, Fannie Lou Hamer was crucial to the civil right movement. With the struggles that were in her life, she was able to understand the want to fight for freedom. She gave it her all to have people want to participated to fight for themselves. An example of this is when she went door to door to teach citizenship classes in the sixties. Showing that she cared for others and for the movement by giving them a ground to stand on. Without the classes that she taught, they would be taken advantage of. They wouldn’t have all the information meaning that they wouldn’t know if what they were told was true. She was important for many reasons, but one of the main ones is her unquestionable bravery to stand against others. Like the stand she did on 1964 Democratic National Convention where she challenged the unseat of all white Mississippi

I felt that she has finally had some recognition of her ability to be great by being recruited by the SNCC. She finally had a want to be free. She was strong in the times of need and instead of running away when she saw the group of whites and dogs waiting for them outside, she chose to continued. This gave strength to the others that were with her because it shown that she was willing to go into danger when there would high chance to get hurt herself. Even when she failed the literacy test, she was willing to tried again until she finally passed it. When she went back to the plantation and the owner wanted her to retreat her registration, she had to make a choice of staying or leaving. She realized that it was time that she did something for herself and not for someone else. All the times that she had help the owner even when it wasn’t part of her time-keeper job, he couldn’t understand that she wanted to have a better