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— Fannie Lou Hamer Hamer and her husband wanted very much to start a family but in 1961, a white doctor subjected Hamer to a hysterectomy without her consent while she was undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor. Forced sterilization was a common method of population control in Mississippi that targeted poor, African-American women. Members of the Black community called the procedure a ...
978-0-76-366531-9. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer is a 2015 non-fiction and poetic children's book by written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes. The book discusses the life of American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977). Hamer was born to sharecropper parents in Mississippi, the youngest of 20 ...
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer is a non-fiction book by Chana Kai Lee, published in 1999 by University of Illinois Press . Publishers Weekly stated that the work's main focus was aspects of the Civil Rights Movement in the beginning stages and Hamer's development of her activism, instead of being a general biography of Hamer. [1]
New York University ( BA, MA) Columbia University. Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. [1] She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. [2] Height is credited as the first leader in the civil ...
Mississippi Delta. Leader. Fannie Lou Hamer. Freedom Farm Cooperative was an agricultural cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project. The cooperative sought to uplift Black families through food provisions, such ...
Fannie Lou Hamer said, "We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired." [18] Although denied official recognition, the MFDP kept up their agitation within the convention. When all but three of the regular Mississippi delegates left because they refused to support Johnson against Goldwater, the Republican Party ...
Journalist, author. Kay Mills (February 4, 1941 in Washington, D.C. – January 13, 2011 [1]) was an American journalist and author. When she joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978 she became one of the first women (and often the only one) on its editorial board . Mills also revived the nearly lost stories of women journalists and civil rights icons.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1964) speaks at a Democratic Convention regarding the plight of sharecroppers. She founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative, an independent food project to provide aid for sharecroppers. Notwithstanding the national outrage generated by the murders, the Johnson Administration was determined to deflect the MDFP effort.