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26 de abr. de 2024 · Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.
5 de oct. de 2021 · WALK WITH ME A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer By Kate Clifford Larson. UNTIL I AM FREE Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America By Keisha N. Blain. On Aug. 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, a ...
22 de feb. de 2022 · Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of ...
Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer (* 6. Oktober 1917 in Ruleville, Montgomery County, Mississippi, als Fannie Lou Townsend; † 14. März 1977 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi) war eine US-amerikanische Bürgerrechtlerin. In den 1960er Jahren kämpfte sie in den USA für das Stimmrecht und die Gleichberechtigung der Afroamerikaner.
Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed a nation’s perspective on democracy. Hamer became involved in the civil rights movement when she volunteered to attempt to register to vote in 1962. By then, 45 years old and a mother, Hamer lost her job and continually risked her life because of her civil rights activism.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Fannie Lou Hamer was unable to have children after having a surgery to remove a tumor, and being given a hysterectomy without her consent. Death Year: 1977; Death date: March 14 ...
Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the a...
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