On Oct. 6, 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She died March 14, 1977, at age 59, after aggressively fighting breast cancer. Starkly different from 2025, where advanced ...
Introduction: Showing love and telling it like it is : the rhetorical practices of Fannie Lou Hamer -- "I don't mind my light shining," speech delivered at a Freedom Vote rally in Greenwood, ...
Delta daughter -- Black woman leader -- Winona -- Local need and electoral politics -- The national stage -- Returning home -- The Mississippi freedom labor union -- Poverty, politics, and the freedom ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The family of Fannie Lou Hamer donated the civil rights leader’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Former President ...