Written by Mississippi Today Mississippi Today A screening of the award-winning film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sixty summers ago, Fannie Lou Hamer told millions of Americans watching ... So did Simpson, who sat next to Hamer on the bus ride. A year earlier, she had nursed Hamer’s wounds inside the Winona jail ...