The political efforts of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer are a case in point. Sixty years ago this Aug. 22, Hamer delivered an electrifying speech at ... it seemed like they’d been ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... the deeply religious Hamer began to sing spirituals. Singing, in particular, “This Little Light of Mine” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” became one of ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt.