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CHICAGO — How much do you really know about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer? In these pandemic years, her story has been told on the Goodman Theatre stage and in Chicago parks by way of ...
— 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 ...
The official description of the documentary airing a week later, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America, reads: “Through rare footage and recordings, some not seen or heard in half a century, Hamer tells ...
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.
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 ...
Adams states that Hamer was a critical figure in inspiring other leaders of the movement. Adams described Hamer's courage of giving up her job while registering future voters. The same three women (Adams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Annie Devine) were honored congressional guests in 1968, and were seated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Fannie Lou Hamer, who was on the bus, watched as the five were kicked, shoved and eventually arrested. Hamer got off the bus to help her colleagues and she too was taken into custody.
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 ...