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 ...

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 ...

This is the tragic real-life story of Fannie Lou Hamer. Camping World CEO defies lawsuits, vows American flags ‘not coming down’ Eating one type of fruit could lower depression risk ...

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 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.

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 ...

She went to a snake meeting in the early ’60s, and this is when she learned that ... I’ve watched videos so that I could learn as much as possible about the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. So when the time ...

Greta Oglesby portrays civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s “Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.” Courtesy Kevin Berne. “Fannie: The Music ...

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, 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 ...