Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... by adolescence 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 ...

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

It was 60 years to the day of Hamer’s speech. “Kamala Harris says she stands on Fannie Lou’s shoulders,” Aimebaye recalled.

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer ... issues from Hamer’s 1964 testimony that still resonate, said Keisha N. Blain, a Brown University historian. She cited the July 6 shooting death of Sonya ...

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 ... before Election Day will help all people ...

As we get closer to Election Day — early voting begins Monday ... John Lewis (who later became a noted U.S. congressman) Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Bob Moses, Stokely Carmichael ...

Richardson also looked up to civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer, a grassroots organizer in Mississippi ... You have got ...

And what will that say about who America is at the end of the day? A lot of the reason we ... made the dream of America come alive, it’s Fannie Lou Hamer, a former sharecropper who was beaten almost ...

As we approach Election Day, we call to mind saintly figures such as Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who, in generations past, fought and struggled (and sometimes died ...

For example, frozen-food manufacturer Rhino Foods developed an income-advance program that provides same-day emergency loans that transition ... Civil rights leaders such as Fannie Lou Hamer and ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... by adolescence 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 ...