See how they lived as they pursued the "American dream" by touring the recreated tenement apartments in which they lived. You ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a force to be reckoned with. Enduring intractable racism, police beatings, and even forced sterilization, she never stopped working for equal voting rights for all.

“I've been tired so long, now I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and we want a change,” she said in Harlem in 1964. Singing makes our hearts beat together Whenever Fannie Lou Hamer ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

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?

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 ...

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 ...

is shorter, she said. “There were things that could be cut because it really wasn’t necessary to Fannie Lou Hamer,” Watkins said. Nearby, Ng and a rehearsal pianist — a last-minute ...

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 ...

Shirley Chisholm comes after Fannie Lou Hamer — BARBARA RANSBY: Yeah. AMY GOODMAN: — the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers, who became involved in the civil rights movement when she ...

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 ...

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 ...