Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... several years of school, by adolescence she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked ...
When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned ... in 1917, Hamer was raised on a plantation as a sharecropper. At only 12, Hamer quit school to work in the fields, and later got married ...
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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 how ... and she would be forced to leave school shortly afterward to help her family eke ...
Hosted annually by the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware, the Fannie Lou Hamer Lecture is a signature event held each February in celebration of Black History Month. Named ...
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