Forced sterilization set Fannie Lou Hamer on path to the Mississippi Civil Rights movement. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Ruleville, Mississippi, has been posthumously honored for her significant contributions to the civil rights movement."And the day that Ms. Hamer decided ...

Sixty years ago, at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer told the party and the country about themselves when she was denied a seat on the all-White ...

Fannie Lou Hamer fought for Civil Rights, and famously questioned Democrats for their commitment; 60 years later, her presence is felt at DNC. advertisement Story by Julia Gomez, USA TODAY ...

It’s her memories of Fannie Lou the mother, and not necessarily as the activist that she writes about in her book “Mama Fannie: Growing Up the Daughter of Civil Rights Icon Fannie Lou Hamer.” ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marlee Bunch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (THE CONVERSATION) It ...

It was some 20 years ago when Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye got tired of people telling her they didn’t know who civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was. She decided to do something about it.

During the summer of 1968, the 50-year-old civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a powerful speech on American democracy before a mostly white audience in Kentucky.In Hamer’s vision ...

It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.. At a ...

Forced sterilization set Fannie Lou Hamer on path to the Mississippi Civil Rights movement. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent ...