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In her stead, her husband, Perry “Pap” Hamer, stepped in. “It’s interesting how invested they were in traditional gender roles, but how much necessity forced them to switch. When she was doing her thing around the country, Pap was taking care of all the domestic [and survival] tasks that needed taking care of,” Davenport said.
Mar 15, 2024 · With the support of her husband, Perry, known as Pap, Hamer surrounded herself with children, taking in her first, Dorothy Jean, when she was just eight-months-old.
At 12, she left school to work on the field, picking an average of 200–300 pounds of cotton a day. In 1945, at the age of 28, she married Perry “Pap” Hamer and moved to the Marlow plantation, where he worked as a tractor driver. There, she was the only literate worker, and the plantation owner made her the timekeeper.
Feb 1, 2015 · Fannie Lou Townsend married Perry “Pap” Hamer in 1944 and they settled on the Marlow plantation as sharecroppers outside Ruleville, Mississippi. Hamer, a plantation records keeper, could read ...
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. ... In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and ...
Apr 12, 2019 · Flakes was 53. Flakes is the second family member of the late civil rights icon to pass away in nearly two years. On October 25, 2017, Vergie Ree Hamer Faulkner, who was also adopted by Hamer and her husband, Perry (Pap), died in Memphis, Tenn. She was 66. Nicknamed ‘Nook’ by Pap, Flakes and her sister, Jacqueline (Cookie), were adopted as ...
Mar 14, 2019 · With the support of her husband, Perry, known as Pap, Hamer surrounded herself with children, taking in her first, Dorothy Jean, when she was just eight-months-old.
