SHE PAVED THE WAY FOR A L Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Ruleville, Mississippi, has been posthumously honored for her significant contributions to the civil rights movement."And the ...

Almost 60 years ago, Fannie ... in the American Civil Rights Movement," stated its website. Multiple markers can be found throughout Mississippi. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy ...

When we think about the Civil Rights Movement in terms of gender, typically, the men are highlighted. I think, Fannie Lou Hamer, she represents strong leadership, female leadership. She was ...

It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly ... the things that prompted Hamer to join the Civil Rights Movement. In the summer of ...

Growing Up the Daughter of Civil Rights Icon Fannie Lou Hamer.” Just two years before Hamer was born, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what many states were using to keep Black people from ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in ... sterilization was one of the moments that set Hamer on the path to the forefront of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement, but the incident that brought her ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer ... emerged as one of the most influential civil rights activists in the movement. While her contributions are many, Hamer is perhaps most well known for her ...