In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy.

The 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 struggle for voting rights.

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 ...

The political efforts of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer are a case ... used to prevent the Black vote only served to underscore its immense power. Hamer came to realize the potentially ...

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 ...

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.