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.
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... During her powerful testimony, Johnson called a last-minute press conference, causing the networks to break with their convention coverage and broadcast ...
It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly ... networks broadcast Hamer’s Aug. 22, 1964, testimony before the Democratic Convention ...
Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who used singing to promote community and fight for voting rights. Hamer's life and legacy are celebrated in the new Kentucky Opera production ...
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 ...
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 ...