When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly how she wanted to spend her life — fighting for every Black American's ...
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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 white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.
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In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy.
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in ... not long after attending a voting rights meeting organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer joined 17 of her neighbors on a bus ...
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 ...
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic ... they have simply evolved. Duvalier Malone Hamer’s fight for voting rights helped push the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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