Hamer was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer in 1976 which halted her activism. She died of breast cancer complications ...

By Marlee Bunch, article courtesy of newsone.com It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about ...

On Aug. 22, 1964, 47-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention and told the harrowing account of her attempt two years earlier to register to ...

The family of Fannie Lou Hamer has donated the civil rights leader’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Mississippi ...

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Civil and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized activism to end injustices against African Americans, author Kiesha N. Blain told Stockton University students ...

>> WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. >> THE FAMOUS LINE, DELIVERED IN DECEMBER 1964 BY FANNIE LOU HAMER, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, SPEAKING FROM THE HEART IN HER ...

The family of Fannie Lou Hamer donated the civil rights leader’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Mississippi Department ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom will go on display in the next few months at the Two Mississippi Museums.

Introduction: "I don't mind my light shining" -- A rhetorical education, 1917-1962 -- Through the shadows of death, 1962-1964 -- "Is this America?" 1964 -- "The country's number one freedom fighting ...