Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... and Hamer left Nashville eager to take on her new role as a community organizer. Pap Hamer had stayed at the Marlow plantation, working through the harvest ...

Pap Hamer, Fannie Lou Hamer’s husband, was Land’s uncle. He and Richardson’s father were brothers. Doris Hamer Richardson, the niece of Pap Hamer, Fannie Lou Hamer’s husband. Credit: Courtesy of ...

Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ presidential nom-ination Thursday Aug. 22, 2024, exactly 60 years after ...

Fannie Lou Hamer is a woman you should know ... In 1944 she wed Perry “Pap” Hamer, residing on the Marlow plantation outside Ruleville, Miss. When Mr. Marlow learned Hamer could read and ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

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 ...

This year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago is a historic moment as Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris’ ascent to this position — as ...

Robert F. Kennedy, public science educator Bill Nye, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that can be awarded ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... and Hamer left Nashville eager to take on her new role as a community organizer. Pap Hamer had stayed at the Marlow plantation, working through the harvest ...

Pap Hamer, Fannie Lou Hamer’s husband, was Land’s uncle. He and Richardson’s father were brothers. “I have so many wonderful memories of Aunt Fannie Lou,” Richardson said. “It’s an amazing feeling to ...

"Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer transformed the struggle for racial ... She continued to work as a sharecropper after her 1944 marriage to Perry "Pap" Hamer. The couple labored on a cotton plantation ...

President Joe Biden has announced the 2025 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, created in 1963 to recognize individuals whose work has ...