When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer ... a passionate address. Hamer spoke on the topic at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and also joined forces with Martin Luther King, Jr. during her ...
Today she is the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection ... Some names have become well known, ...
It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.
BRIEFLY: Boy Scouts Troop 50 to celebrate 70th anniversary; Education Foundation Suncoast Scholars; Punta Gorda and Lakewood Ranch festivals.