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Hace 2 días · Early life, family, and education Hamer was born as Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the last of the 20 children of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend. In 1919, the Townsends moved to Ruleville, Mississippi, to work as sharecroppers on W. D. Marlow's plantation. From age six, Hamer picked cotton with her family. During the winters of 1924 through ...
Hace 2 días · Decades later, the voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer explained that she kept “a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom, and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite ...
Hace 3 días · Since the civil rights era, iterations of King’s nonviolent approach have remained the most familiar, acceptable and celebrated forms of opposition to racial oppression. You can see the roots of King’s philosophy of nonviolence in the marches and hashtags in the summer of 2020 after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others.
Hace 2 días · Fannie Lou Hamer said it best when she stated: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” ― Fannie Lou Hamer. So you see many folx far more better with words than me wrote, spoke about and expressed the way our freedom is inextricably linked with each other so why do people have to make it so difficult? Well I’ll tell you why: White ...
Hace 6 días · “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” 1 Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer said those words in 1964, and they are just as true for Black women today as they were then. The context has changed, but the situation remains the same.
Hace 4 días · Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of Freedom Farm Cooperative, speaks on behalf of SNCC regarding African-American rights to vote. Following the 1964 elections, civil rights organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) pushed for federal action to protect ...
Hace 5 días · Not by aiding weapons and funding their destruction. As civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer famously said in 1971, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
