It was in this town Fannie Lou Hamer and five others were arrested, jailed and four brutally beaten after their bus stopped at a segregated bus terminal. Euvester Simpson said, “Mrs. Hamer is ...

Almost 60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer took the podium at the Democratic ... Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, Hamer boarded a bus with 17 neighbors to register to vote.

They whacked Fannie Lou ... Hamer after she and fellow members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were jailed on June 9, 1963, for trying to integrate a whites-only waiting room at ...

It was some 20 years ago when Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye got tired of people telling her they didn’t know who civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was ... in a whites-only bus-station restaurant ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the ... in a “whites only” section of a bus station restaurant in Mississippi. They were jailed and brutally beaten, with Hamer suffering a blood clot to her ...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention comes 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer's famed "Is this America" speech at the 1964 DNC. The 2024 Democratic National Convention is seeing the country unite ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's fight for voting rights in 1964 remains relevant today as states continue to enact voter suppression tactics. While Black political representation has increased, many elected ...

CHICAGO — On Aug. 22, 1964, Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer delivered an iconic speech at the Democratic National Convention, taking the party to task for its failure to ...

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 ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the DNC credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey 60 years ago was vivid and blunt. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who used singing to promote community and fight for voting rights. Hamer's life and legacy are celebrated in the new Kentucky Opera production ...