Search results
In 1977, Hamer passed away, and the crowd at her funeral included civil rights luminaries. Andrew Young, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, gave her eulogy, saying, according to the New York Times, that the seeds of social change in America “were sown here by the sweat and blood of you and Fannie Lou Hamer.”.
Nov 21, 2023 · Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, the twentieth child of sharecroppers in a community located in Montgomery County, near the Mississippi Delta. At the age of six, Fannie Lou worked ...
Oct 5, 2021 · WALK WITH ME A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer By Kate Clifford Larson. UNTIL I AM FREE Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America By Keisha N. Blain. On Aug. 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, a ...
Fannie Lou Hamer. everywhere in titles only. Biographies Fannie Lou Hamer. (Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer; Fanny Lou Hamer) born October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. died March 14, 1977 in Ruleville, Mississippi. American civil rights activist. 100th birthday on October 6. 2017.
Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest of twenty children. Her parents were sharecroppers, which is a system of farming whereby workers are allowed to live on a plantation in return for working the land. When the crop is harvested, they split the ...
Funding for FANNIE LOU HAMER'S AMERICA provided by W.K. Kellogg Foundation, JustFilms | Ford Foundation, GBH Voices and Equity Fund made possible by the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family ...
- 3 min
Walk with Me. : Kate Clifford Larson. Oxford University Press, 2021 - Biography & Autobiography - 322 pages. She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which ...
