Democracy in America is being driven into the shadows. Anyone in doubt need only pause to reflect on the events of June, when ...

On Aug. 22, 1964, 47-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention and told the harrowing account of her attempt two years earlier to ...

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.

Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend on Oct. 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, to sharecropping parents. She was the youngest of 20 children. Hamer began working in the fields when she was ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By Keisha N. Blain, an ...

“The Fannie Lou Hamer Story” is presented by Healing Through the Sound of Music, a nonprofit 501 founded in 2001 by Aimbaye and her husband, Djehuty Se Hotep.

Hamer, a prominent and powerful voice in the both the civil and voting rights movements, was a sharecropper in Mississippi in the early 1960s with her husband, until she was fired for attempting ...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention is seeing the country unite to nominate someone who could become the first Black woman president. The historical event comes 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer ...

Blain noted in her 2021 book, “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America,” that Hamer feared both abortion and birth control were “white supremacist tools to regulate ...

A life-size standee of Fannie Lou Hamer points to the "I Question America" is shown in an exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Jackson, Miss.Stephen Smith/AP ...

FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Aug. 22, 1964, as her racially integrated group challenged ...

Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS The Associated Press, Updated August 21, 2024, 9:36 a.m.