The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt.

His roots in civil rights activism run deep, having worked alongside icons like Fannie Lou Hamer in the 1960s to register Black voters throughout the Mississippi Delta. This early experience ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend on Oct. 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta area, and Hamer ...

Ph.D., the Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at FSU. “I was very surprised that I could find nothing celebrating the fact that Meredith grew up there, and so I started asking some ...

Wells and Fannie Lou Hamer. Don’t miss it! “Heroines of Voting Rights”: Friday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 100 N. Palmway, Lake Worth Beach. Info: 561-310-3230.

Perry says it's no coincidence that King wore blue on her wedding day, and that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer wore a blue dress to testify before Congress in 1964. "When I see the ...

King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many others — throwing down the gauntlet.

Fannie E. Stoltzfoos, 74, of 307 E. Eby Rd., Leola, passed away Saturday, February 1, 2025. She was the wife of the late Daniel B. Stoltzfoos who died in 2022. Born in Bird-in-Hand, she was the ...

Though not a Catholic, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deserves to have his legacy of non-violence, love and justice recalled in the context of Catholic social teaching. What's more, the ...

His "We Shall Overcome" is in many ways the definitive version. 14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963) The original lyrics of this 19th Century spiritual celebrate the birth of ...