Forced sterilization set Fannie Lou Hamer on path to the Mississippi Civil Rights movement. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent or knowledge when she underwent ...

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington, in this Sept. 17, 1965 file photo. Hamer and others used Christmas carols to ...

This is addressing Fannie Lou Hamer, who, 60 years ago, testified to the DNC Credentials Committee because she couldn't be a part of the Mississippi delegation.

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt.. She described how she was fired from her plantation job in retaliation for trying ...

Marilyn Mays Hamer is Fannie Lou Hamer’s niece. She said, “We always think about Aunt Fannie, but noting that 60 years have passed since the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the ...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention is seeing the country unite to nominate someone who could become the first Black woman president. The historical event comes 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's fight for voting rights in 1964 remains relevant today as states continue to enact voter suppression tactics. While Black political representation has increased, many elected ...

Fannie Lou Hamer picketing in front of the Forrest County Courthouse in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1964. Image courtesy of the Collection of Smithsonian National Museum of African American ...

Description. Author Caitlin Cass talked about Fannie Lou Hamer's contributions to civil rights. Bell Ringer Assignment. According to Caitlin Cass, what is Fannie Lou Hamer most famous for?

In this Aug. 22, 1964 photograph, Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Freedom Democratic party, speaks before the credentials committee of the Democratic national convention in Atlantic City, N.J ...

Sixty years ago this August, a 46-year-old former sharecropper and activist from Mississippi named Fannie Lou Hamer spoke before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. on Aug. 22, 1964 as ...