Hamer is most notable for her involvement in the voter registration campaign, Freedom Summer in 1964, where college students of all races helped expand voting rights for Black people in Mississippi.

Following are 5 quick facts about Fannie Lou Hamer: Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend on Oct. 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, to sharecropping parents. She was the youngest of 20 children ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday is October 6, and in her hometown of Ruleville, on Saturday, October 5, there will be a 107th birthday celebration of the iconic civil rights leader’s life at ...

The 29th Fannie Lou Hamer Awards Reception will honor 17 local women for their civil and human rights leadership on Sept. 29 at Maryland Hall in Annapolis. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, was an Ameri… ...

FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats’ presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televi… ...

Colom said he visited Hamer at her modest home in Ruleville before she died of cancer at 59 in 1977. “She had no perception, which surprised me, of what an important figure she had become ...