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.

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 ...

of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating the brutality faced by Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists who were arrested in June 1963, at a bus station in Winona as they ...

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 ...

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 ...

The political efforts of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer are a case in point. Sixty years ago this Aug. 22, Hamer delivered an electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention in ...

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 ...

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 Rattled the Democratic Convention With Her 'Is This America?' Speech 60 Years Ago JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential ...