Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked alongside him at W.D. Marlow ...

Why Fannie Lou Hamer's Message and Fight Endure Today The difficulties of Hamer’s childhood extended well into adulthood when she struggled to make ends meet. Despite her limited material ...

On Aug. 22, 1964, 47-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention and told the harrowing account of her attempt two years earlier to ...

As strong-willed civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Butler knows she has audiences in the palm of her hand. And rightfully so! Butler easily glides between impassioned ...