Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked alongside him at W.D. Marlow ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was the baby of her family, who were sharecroppers with 19 children before her. After working on plantations for most of her adult life, she joined the Civil Rights movement.

This is the tragic real-life story of Fannie Lou Hamer. Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Elon Musk Says He'll Step Down in May All but one of the 20 Concordes are accounted for. Here’s what ...

Rising from humble roots as the daughter of a Mississippi sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer became a leader in the struggle for voting rights at a time when Civil Rights were far from secure.

For Jacqueline Hamer ... life, and probably more so as a child than as an adult. Though she served two years as city clerk in Ruleville, Mississippi, it was growing up the daughter of Fannie Lou ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who used singing to promote community and fight for voting rights. Hamer's life and legacy are celebrated in the new Kentucky Opera production ...

As a late-blooming “freedom worker” in the civil rights and voting rights movements, from the early 1960s until ... “The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer,” but it’s fairly skimpy ...

‘Fannie Lou, I’m here, and I started singing. That was an incredible experience.” Singing is part of Aimbaye’s show, which takes a poetic look at Hamer’s life. As the play ...

“Fannie: The Life and Music of Fannie Lou Hamer” opens Jan. 9 at the IRT ... poll taxes blocking the path to the ballot box in the early 1960s. “There’s a call-and-response element ...

Supporters insist that the one-woman stage play will uplift the audience, even as they learn about Fannie Lou Hamer ... stage play she wrote about the life of Hamer in theaters around the ...

Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer tells the impassioned story of American civil rights activist and hero, Fannie Lou Hamer. From her humble origins as the daughter of a Mississippi ...