Forced sterilization set Fannie Lou Hamer on path to the Mississippi Civil Rights movement. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Freedom Democratic Party, speaks before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Aug. 22, 1964.

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

Fannie Lou Hamer wasn’t one of those dainty, soft-spoken Southern ladies who drank sweet tea with a congenial smile and a Sunday go-to-church wide-brimmed hat. No. She was a tough, in-your-face ...

In an exclusive interview with theGrio, Fannie Lou Hamer's daughter celebrates her mother on the 42nd anniversary of the civil rights activist's death. The post Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer: On ...

Fannie Lou Hamer became a nationally known figure because the president of the United States would rather the country not know her name. Cheryl L. West’s one-person play with music, ...

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington, in this Sept. 17, 1965 file photo. Hamer and others used Christmas carols to ...

The late Fannie Lou Hamer understood this all too well. The youngest of 20 children and born to Mississippi sharecroppers, Hamer didn’t begin her human-rights activism until her 40s.

“Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak on It!” is a shortened version of a longer piece intended to be staged at the Goodman Theatre when conditions allow, and is touring Chicago Park District parks through ...

CHICAGO — How much do you really know about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer? In these pandemic years, her story has been told on the Goodman Theatre stage and in Chicago parks by way of ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

Fannie Lou Hamer is quoted, perhaps more than any other female activist of her generation. And because of her compelling and heartfelt calls to action during the civil rights movement, ...