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.

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.

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. >> THE FAMOUS LINE, DELIVERED IN DECEMBER 1964 BY FANNIE LOU HAMER, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, SPEAKING FROM THE HEART IN HER ...

On Aug. 22, 1964, 47-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee ... this daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers and civil rights icon used her voice to lay bare the injustice ...

Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires.

Black History Month is a time to reflect on the Mississippi trailblazers who shaped our past and continue to inspire our future.We celebrate giants like Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Meredith ...

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 ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who used ... this daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers and civil rights icon used her voice to lay bare the injustice of voter suppression and inspire ...

The story of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is being told in the opera, “Is This America?” by composer Mary D. Watkins. Performances will take place Sept. 20, 21 & 22 at the Strand ...