"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 ...

When the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., rolls around, I frequently find my mind wandering to the Mississippi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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, who famously registered Black voters throughout the South and advocated for voting rights, was posthumously awarded her Medal of Freedom, which was accepted by Doris Hamer ...

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 ...

Mississippian civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded 19 recipients the prestigious medal at the White House. Hamer ...