Fannie Lou Hamer (/ˈheɪmər/; née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and...

1971 – via NYTimes.com. Hamer, Fannie Lou, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like it is']...

True Blood, Detroit 1-8-7 and Under the Dome. In 2016, she played Fannie Lou Hamer in biographical drama film All the Way. She has also appeared in Assault...

For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer is a non-fiction book by Chana Kai Lee, published in 1999 by University of Illinois Press. Publishers...

Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project...

Pullen's shotgun, treating it as a battle trophy. Civil rights pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer was 8 years old at the time. In her retelling of the events, "Pulliam"...

During the Civil Rights Movement that expanded beginning in the 1950s, Fannie Lou Hamer, a farm worker, started a movement for poor people. According to the...

: 195  On May 2, 2006, Representative Sensenbrenner introduced the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization...

Children, Ballantine Books, 1999. ISBN 0-449-00439-2 Hamer, Fannie Lou, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like it is, University Press of Mississippi...

According to Janice Hamlet's essay “‘Fannie Lou Hamer: The Unquenchable Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement’” describes Hamer as a power voice and standing up...

book discusses the life of American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). Hamer was born to sharecropper parents in Mississippi, the youngest...

with Malcolm X on two Harlem MFDP fundraisers in December 1964. When Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to Harlemites about the Jim Crow violence that she'd suffered...

civil rights movement. She learned from a newspaper of the death of Fannie Lou Hamer, once a close friend. Parks suffered two broken bones in a fall on...

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Named for black disabled civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer who worked as a field secretary for the SNCC, contributed to the creation...

formed part of the civil rights movement. In the late 60s activist Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the founders of the Freedom Farms Cooperative, an effort...

actress Fannie Lee Chaney (1921–2007), American baker turned civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), American voting rights activist Fannie Nampeyo...

the people she assisted in becoming a voter was community organizer Fannie Lou Hamer. Ladner had lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1974, where she...

engine to derail. In 1963, Sunflower County resident and sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was jailed and beaten for attempting to register to vote. The next...

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He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, whose efforts gained...

she is producing an upcoming four-hour television miniseries about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. The project was...

York, NY: Viking, 2010). ISBN 978-0-670-02170-3 Hamer, Fannie Lou, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like it is', Univ. Press of Mississippi...

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(1907–1970), leader in American labor movement and civil rights movement Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), voting and civil rights activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006)...

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anti-gun violence activism to that experience. In 2014, he joined the Fannie Lou Hamer Coalition and helped rally a movement to vote against the Democratic...

activists, including Fannie Lou Hamer, whom Carmichael named as one of his personal heroes. SNCC organizer Joann Gavin wrote that Hamer and Carmichael "understood...

Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of Freedom Farm Cooperative, speaks on behalf of SNCC regarding African-American rights to vote....

Gospel. She directed and wrote the 2022 short film Fannie starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Fannie Lou Hamer. At the 54th NAACP Image Awards, she received...