Student Essay: From Black Protest To Black Power: Roy Wilkins And Fannie Lou Hamer

NameCourse instructorCourse Date“From Black Protest to Black Power: Roy Wilkins and Fannie Lou Hamer"Roy Wilkins was the secretary of the national association for the advancement of colored people while Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who helped African Americans to register so that they can vote. The main theme or issue in “From Black Protest to Black Power” is racial discrimination and segregation. Both Wilkins and Hamer worked to end the segregation and the discrimination of the black community by the white community in the US. For example, Wilkins investigated the employment of blacks in the levee construction. Hamer on the other hand had gotten tired of the treatment the blacks in the Mississippi region received and the fact that blacks were not allowed to vote due to their skin color. She was beaten and even arrested for being in a white’s only bus terminal at some point of her activist life.Wilkins worked against racial discrimination by offering support to civil-rights activists in Mississippi, who were being subjected to "credit squeeze" by members of the White Citizens Councils. He backed a plan in which black businesses and voluntary associations transferred their bank accounts to a bank that