If we are lucky, we will grow old one day. It is a chapter that some make the most of—inner perspectives change and evolve, ...

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message ... the next year, Hamer almost lost her life. Returning from a two-week workshop with a group of volunteers, the bus they were on stopped 30 miles ...

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 ...

With a voice that incorporated prophetic clarity and scholarly rigor, King organized and led monumental campaigns like the Montgomery Bus Boycott ... New York City. Fannie Lou Hamer was a ...

Sally Ride, 1951-2012. Astronaut and the first American woman ... Wife of John Adams, women's rights and anti-slavery activist. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977. Civil rights activist, member of the ...

There's really not much else to say, so they just ride the groove out ... is in many ways the definitive version. 14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963) The original lyrics ...

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 ...

I met Marilyn Mays Hamer in Winona. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 returned ...