Fannie Lou Hamer (/ˈheɪmər/; née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and...
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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']...
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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...
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For Freedom's Sake (redirect from For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer)
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...
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Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project...
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Joe Pullen (section Recollections of Fannie Lou Hamer)
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"...
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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...
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Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (redirect from Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006)
: 195 On May 2, 2006, Representative Sensenbrenner introduced the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization...
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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...
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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...
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book discusses the life of American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). Hamer was born to sharecropper parents in Mississippi, the youngest...
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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...
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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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Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Putnam Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon...
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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...
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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...
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actress Fannie Lee Chaney (1921–2007), American baker turned civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), American voting rights activist Fannie Nampeyo...
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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...
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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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Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Putnam Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon...
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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...
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she is producing an upcoming four-hour television miniseries about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. The project was...
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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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Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Putnam Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon...
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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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Fred Gray Jack Greenberg Dick Gregory Lawrence Guyot Prathia Hall Fannie Lou Hamer Fred Hampton William E. Harbour Vincent Harding Dorothy Height Audrey...
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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...
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activists, including Fannie Lou Hamer, whom Carmichael named as one of his personal heroes. SNCC organizer Joann Gavin wrote that Hamer and Carmichael "understood...
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Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of Freedom Farm Cooperative, speaks on behalf of SNCC regarding African-American rights to vote....
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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...
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