Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.
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Fannie Lou Hamer's 1964 DNC Speech Paved the Way for HarrisThe political efforts of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer are a ... schoolhouse so she could help her family meet their growing financial pressures. Still, Hamer’s family remained trapped ...
The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt.
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.
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