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 ...
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Fannie Lou Hamer
When you hear stories about the civil rights movement in the '50s and '60s, it mainly revolves around figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers. But did ...
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 ...
Crispus Attucks -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Matthew Henson -- Marian Anderson -- Ralph Bunche -- Charles R. Drew -- Romare Bearden -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Eddie Robinson -- Shirley Chisolm -- Malcolm X -- ...
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