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Oct 27, 2021 · Fannie Lou Hamer in Ruleville, Miss., in 1969. Al Clayton/Getty Images. Their community garden yielded crops that served more than 1,600 families in the Mississippi Delta, as well as other parts ...
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a new and original documentary told through the public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. Known for being “sick and tired of being sick and tired” and her impassioned pleas for equal rights, Fannie Lou Hamer helped change ...
Oct 5, 2021 · On Aug. 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi, took her place before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six. Although she managed to complete several years of school, by adolescence she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day.
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.
May 19, 2022 · The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (FLHI) was founded to promote the name, history and accomplishments of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer and her leadership in the civil and human rights movement and as a freedom fighter for justice and inclusion. Additionally, the FLHI was created to educate, engage, and involve people on issues of racial and social justice ...
When Hamer was given a chance to speak about the violence she experienced in Mississippi, she told the world how she had been beaten and brutalized when she attempted to register others to vote. Her testimony attracted the attention of millions. Freedom Summer of 1964 was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.
