The Johnson Amendment has never been strictly enforced by the IRS, meaning that religious leaders have long endorsed politicians.

“It was very traumatizing for me,” she said, and it brought to her mind how past Civil Rights leaders had been jailed: Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X.

14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963) The original lyrics of this 19th Century spiritual celebrate the birth of Jesus.

It was widely used in Black churches by then and emerged as a civil rights anthem in the '50s and '60s thanks to the efforts of Zilphia Horton, Fannie Lou Hamer and Bettie Mae Fikes.

The movement was Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Rev. John Lewis, Andrew Young, Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, the Rev. James Lawson, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Stanley Levinson, Marian ...

King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many others — throwing down the gauntlet.

King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many others — throwing down the gauntlet.

2025 MLK Day events in Palm Beach County, including parades, service projects, and celebrations honoring Dr. King's legacy.

President Joe Biden posthumously awards Fannie Lou Hamer the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honoring her civil rights contributions.

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.