Her one-woman play, straightforwardly titled “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” has been ... cotton as a child and left school at age 12 to work. After she was fired for attempting to register ...

She dropped out of school by the time she was 12 years old. Although a school dropout, Fannie Lou was literate. In 1944 she married Peter Hamer, and they both worked on a plantation in Sunflower ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s path to the 1964 Democratic National ... At the tender age of 12, she concluded her studies at a local schoolhouse so she could help her family meet their growing financial ...

Marilyn Mays Hamer is Fannie Lou Hamer’s niece. She said, “We always think about Aunt Fannie, but noting that 60 years have passed since the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She described how she was fired from her plantation job in retaliation for trying ...

Almost 60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer took the podium ... In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent surgery to remove a tumor in her ...

Explain the testimony Fannie Lou Hamer gave when she went to register to vote. What did she state in her remarks at the Democratic National Convention? What was the issue with it airing?

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the many unsung ... California-based composer Mary D. Watkins says Hamer is a very interesting story. “She overcame a great deal,” Watkins said. “ ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By Keisha N. Blain, an ...

The historical event comes 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer’s famed “Is this America” speech, where she called out the seating of Mississippi’s all-white delegation. It was during the 1964 ...

This is addressing Fannie Lou Hamer, who said she's sick and tired of being sick and tired. Well, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of people coming after our freedom, coming after our ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She described how she was fired from her plantation job in retaliation for trying ...