Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer joined 17 of her neighbors on a bus to Indianola, the county seat. Officials blocked most ...

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of ...

Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly ...