It was Martin Luther ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many ...
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.
With Black History Month in February and King’s birthday holiday in January ... Washington or Marcus Garvey or Harriet Tubman or Fannie Lou Hamer, and other major players and contributors ...