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 a force to be reckoned with. Enduring intractable racism, police beatings, and even forced sterilization, she never stopped working for equal voting rights for all. This is the ...

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African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment for leprosy in the early 1920s ... women's rights and anti-slavery activist. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977.

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

Stream the show any time. This documentary examines the life of civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer, offering first-hand accounts by those who knew her and worked side by side with her in the ...

What may come as a surprise is that, unlike today, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ... Their names include Nannie Helen Burroughs, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and later womanist ...