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 ... A year earlier, in June 1963, Hamer and several of her friends attended a voter ...
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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.
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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 ...