Maria is associate professor of education at Vassar College, where she coordinates the Adolescent Education Certification Program. Hantzopoulos' work has appeared in a variety of publications, such as Rethinking Schools, Journal of Peace Education and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She is the author of Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action (Teachers College Press, 2016), and co-editor of the volumes Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform (Information Age, 2012) and Peace Education: International Perspectives
While we are increasingly aware of the need to address racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist and classist language, ableist language is too often disregarded.
In this transcript, Fanny Lou Hamer describes the way in which she was forced to leave the plantation where she worked as as sharecropper for 18 years, was arrested and was beaten--all on account of trying to register to vote.