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

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

Vicksburg residents have an opportunity for an evening of film, conversation, and inspiration this Saturday at the Strand ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper turned ... Through EJI, he founded the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, institutions that confront visitors with ...

president of the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden and Museum Foundation, said. "She stood for voting rights, she stood for human rights, she stood for civil rights, and Miss Hamer was about love, ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963 ... a concert held on the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where many in the crowd of more ...

The movement was Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark ... People walk by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, ahead of the presidential inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington ...

“Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer,” Indiana Repertory Theatre To have one ... premiered July 25-27 at the Taggart Memorial Amphitheatre in Riverside Park. (Photos provided/Indianapolis ...

"Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer transformed the struggle for ... a city in Sunflower County roughly 120 miles northwest of Jackson. A memorial statue of Hamer was erected in 2012 in Ruleville.