Later, Fannie Lou Hamer founded the Freedom Farms Cooperation, which was organized to help needy families get food and livestock. She worked with day care centers. She worked with developers ...

When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned ... Are Honoring Juneteenth This Year In 1969, Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative, a community-based rural and economic development ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... In the following months, Hamer increased her public profile, both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ...

Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... In the following months, Hamer increased her public profile, both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ...