Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked alongside him at W.D. Marlow ...

Supporters insist that the one-woman stage play will uplift the audience, even as they learn about Fannie Lou Hamer.

Why Fannie Lou Hamer's Message and Fight Endure Today The difficulties of Hamer’s childhood extended well into adulthood when she struggled to make ends meet. Despite her limited material ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist, suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police. Her response: to elevate her cause by launching a long ...

Award-winning actress and playwright Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye is taking her one-woman play about civil rights and voting activist Fannie Lou Hamer on the road again. It’s all part of “The Voice of ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. Recommended Videos She described how she was fired from her plantation job in ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was the vice chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She often risked her life in her bold fight for civil rights ...

What are the key milestones of early childhood development? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics, by the end of early childhood ...

From the toils of Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan emerges a twenty-first-century leader, Stacey Abrams. This Element explores the strategic organizing acumen of Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi and ...

In presenting the nation with the catastrophic notion of his return to office, Donald Trump is robbing his opponent of her ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... she was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked alongside him at W.D. Marlow ...