Jessica Gordon Nembhard

She understood that the right to vote mattered deeply, and that people also needed food, land, housing, and a way to make a living.

Our guest is Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, who's professor at John Jay College.

She's author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, and herself, a 2016 Cooperative Hall of Fame inductee.

Jessica, welcome and good morning.

Please don't touch that dial.

[upbeat music] Welcome back, everybody.

This is Vernon Oakes, and the program is Everything Co-op, and we're talking to Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard about the life and the times of Fannie Lou Hamer as a civil rights leader and someone that's a cooperative leader, uh, in some ways ahead of her time.

She did-