Fannie Lou Hamer ... following months, Hamer increased her public profile, both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which ...
Almost 60 years ago, Fannie ... "If the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America," said Hamer, a ...
CHICAGO — On Aug. 22, 1964, Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer delivered ... class citizens," Hamer said in her speech. "And if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now ...
Fannie Lou Hamer's ... in America?” Hamer had come to challenge an all-white Mississippi delegation that sought to exclude Black voters. However, when the Democratic Party attempted to pacify ...
When former sharecropper Fannie Lou ... In 1969, Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative, a community-based rural and economic development project to support Black farmworkers in Mississippi.
Not everyone agreed that bringing students volunteers from across the country into Mississippi in 1964 ... Cobb recalls being convinced by Fannie Lou Hamer. "Mrs. Hamer backed me up into ...