On Oct. 6, 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She died March 14, 1977, at age 59, after aggressively fighting breast cancer. Starkly different from 2025, where advanced ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Anne Arundel County will recognize 13 local women in honor of voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.
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We didn’t come here for no two seats: Fannie Lou Hamer and the future of Black political power
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy. “Is this America, the land of the free and the ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The family of Fannie Lou Hamer donated the civil rights leader’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Former President ...
On Wednesday night, Dr. Teona Williams ’12 spoke to a crowded room of students, professors and community members in Mills ...
“I started writing the [new] book while I was finishing up my book on Fannie Lou Hamer,” says Keisha N. Blain, referring to 2021’s “Until I Am Free” (Beacon). “I had spent several years thinking a lot ...
Fannie Lou Hamer's fight for voting rights in 1964 remains relevant today as states continue to enact voter suppression tactics. While Black political representation has increased, many elected ...
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