How Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the DNC 60 years ago | AP News
Aug 22, 2024 · Kamala Harris is set to accept the Democrats' presidential nomination exactly 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the DNC with her ‘Is this America?’ speech.
60 years after Democrats denied Fannie Lou Hamer a convention ...
Kamala Harris is set to address the convention exactly 60 years after the civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer delivered her powerful convention speech about voting rights and representation.
Fannie Lou Hamer - Wikipedia
— Fannie Lou Hamer Hamer and her husband wanted very much to start a family but in 1961, a white doctor subjected Hamer to a hysterectomy without her consent while she was undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor. Forced sterilization was a common method of population control in Mississippi that targeted poor, African-American women. Members of the Black …
60 years ago Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic ... - PBS
Aug 21, 2024 · The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She described how she was fired from her plantation job in retaliation for...
‘Is this America?’ Six decades later, Fannie Lou Hamer gets ...
Aug 14, 2024 · Sixty summers ago, Fannie Lou Hamer told millions of Americans watching the Democratic National Convention that 16 bullets came into her home after she tried to vote in Mississippi. President Lyndon B. Johnson called a hasty press conference to get television news to cut away from her testimony.
“The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer” | National ...
When Louis Draper took Fannie Lou Hamer’s photo for Essence magazine in 1971, Hamer had only six years left to live. She would die at age fifty-nine, officially from cancer and heart disease, but really from being poor, Black, and an activist in Mississippi at …
Why Fannie Lou Hamer's Message on Economic Justice Endures - TIME
Oct 27, 2021 · Fannie Lou Hamer’s passion and ingenuity—and most of all, her emphasis on empowering those in need—serve as a model for today as activists continue to demand economic justice.