Kay Mills

The University Press of Kentucky has reissued "This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" with a new foreword by Marian Wright Edelman. The paperback is part of the press's series, "Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century." In May 2008 Kay Mills participated in the Bluegrass Festival of Books in Lexington, Ky.

Books will be available for signature at the October 2-5 meeting of the Journalism and Women Symposium at Snowbird, Utah.

Mills is also available for interviews about the impact of the civil rights movement, and particularly Fannie Lou Hamer, on the milestone nomination of Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic National convention. In 1964, Hamer was a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation that challenged the state's all-white representation at that convention in Atlantic City. In 1988, when Jesse Jackson addressed the national convention as a presidential candidate, he said he was there in part because of people like Fannie Lou Hamer and Aaron Henry, who had chaired that 1964 integrated delegation.