When Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to a predominantly white audience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971, the civil rights icon spoke of the time when she was 13 and asked her mother a ...

It’s her memories of Fannie Lou the mother, and not necessarily as the activist that she writes about in her book “Mama Fannie: Growing Up the Daughter of Civil Rights Icon Fannie Lou Hamer.” ...

It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.. At a ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Ruleville, Mississippi, has been posthumously honored for her significant contributions to the civil rights movement."And the day that Ms. Hamer decided ...

J ACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - During the Democratic National Convention a couple of months ago, you heard the name of Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer invoked many times.

Fannie Lou Hamer—born Oct. 6, 1917—became famous for her words, from "I question America" to "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." ... The Speeches That Made Her a Civil-Rights Icon.

Fifty years ago, civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer spoke before the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City—and her speech became one of the most pivotal moments of the Civil ...

Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer loved young people. She loved to be around them and loved to work with them, emphasizing their vitality, vision, and ability to lead. Her approach to working ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, enters the 1964 National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. (CNS photo/Bettmann, courtesy PBS) ...

The remarkable life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made ...

One after the other, Democrats at the recent gathering in Chicago invoked the voice and image of legendary Mississippi Civil Rights Movement icon Fannie Lou Hamer, a firebrand Sunflower County ...