Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... several years of school, by adolescence she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked ...

So, Fannie Lou Hamer helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964. They challenged the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation to the Democratic National Convention in ...

In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National ... the convention instead of fully recognizing the ...

The Fannie Lou Hamer Farm Project is a student-led initiative focused on “Black wellness and land-based learning and healing” ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... several years of school, by adolescence she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked ...