Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and legacy come to life in an upcoming production at Kentucky Opera. This Little Light of Mine (with performances Feb. 21 and 23) is a new work that brings Hamer’s ...

Hamer is most notable for her involvement in the voter registration campaign, Freedom Summer in 1964, where college students of all races helped expand voting rights for Black people in Mississippi.

Fannie Lou Hamer was the MFDP’s most prominent spokesperson. As Mrs. Hamer made her case to the 1964 convention and the nation, President Johnson delivered an obviously well-timed and well ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By Keisha N. Blain, an ...

It was 60 years to the day of Hamer’s speech. “Kamala Harris says she stands on Fannie Lou’s shoulders,” Aimbaye recalled.

The 29th Fannie Lou Hamer Awards Reception will honor 17 local women for their civil and human rights leadership on Sept. 29 at Maryland Hall in Annapolis. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, was an Ameri… ...

That endowment was created, yes, to honor Mrs. Hamer, but also to honor her exceptional speaking abilities — which were on full display this past week when we celebrated her address at the DNC ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s path to the 1964 Democratic National Convention began in rural poverty. Born on Oct. 6, 1917, Hamer was the granddaughter of enslaved Black people and worked as a sharecropper ...

FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22 ...

A life-size standee of Fannie Lou Hamer points to the "I Question America" is shown in an exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Jackson, Miss.Stephen Smith/AP ...

FILE - A statue of the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is displayed in a memorial garden in her hometown of Ruleville, Miss., on Oct. 5, 2017.

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington, in this Sept. 17, 1965 file photo.