Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... the bus was allowed to return to Ruleville. When Hamer got home, she found that plantation owner W.D. Sitting on a porch, summer 1964. Credit: USM Marlow ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s path to the 1964 Democratic National ... at the William Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Ruleville, Miss. At the time, only 5% of Mississippi’s 450,000 Black residents ...

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 ...