Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... the deeply religious Hamer began to sing spirituals. Singing, in particular, “This Little Light of Mine” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” became ...

Whenever Fannie Lou Hamer spoke, she also sang. She invited others to sing along. She understood the power of singing together to heighten the sense of community and solidarity and used it to ...

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.

Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly ...