We didn’t come here for no two seats: Fannie Lou Hamer and the future of Black political power
Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of ...
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Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
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.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in ... not long after attending a voting rights meeting organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer joined 17 of her neighbors on a bus ...
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Review: FANNIE at Goodman Theatre
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 ...