Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

That was the guiding mantra of Fannie Lou Hamer, who two years before she ran for Congress ... Poster art is better known in Europe where nearly every country has a poster museum. The Poster House ...

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

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 ...

Fort Worth’s Grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, wants to motivate and inspire North Texas to get out and vote.

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in ... University said recently at the Mississippi Civil ...

We remembered Fannie Lou Hamer, who endured physical violence for the right to ... the Washington Monument and the National ...

Two days before the Nov. 5 election, Opal Lee will bring a play to Fort Worth that pays tribute to Hamer’s legacy as a voting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.