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    Fannie Lou Hamer (/ˈheɪmər/; née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and...
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  • True Blood, Detroit 1-8-7 and Under the Dome. In 2016, she played Fannie Lou Hamer in biographical drama film All the Way. She has also appeared in Assault...
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  • 1971 – via NYTimes.com. Hamer, Fannie Lou, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like it is']...
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  • Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project...
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    According to Janice Hamlet's essay “‘Fannie Lou Hamer: The Unquenchable Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement’” describes Hamer as a power voice and standing up...
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  • For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer is a non-fiction book by Chana Kai Lee, published in 1999 by University of Illinois Press. Publishers...
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    Pullen's shotgun, treating it as a battle trophy. Civil rights pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer was 8 years old at the time. In her retelling of the events, "Pulliam"...
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    Children, Ballantine Books, 1999. ISBN 0-449-00439-2 Hamer, Fannie Lou, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like it is, University Press of Mississippi...
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    the people she assisted in becoming a voter was community organizer Fannie Lou Hamer. Ladner had lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1974, where she...
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  • Named for black disabled civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer who worked as a field secretary for the SNCC, contributed to the creation...
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    : 195  On May 2, 2006, Representative Sensenbrenner introduced the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization...
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    with Malcolm X on two Harlem MFDP fundraisers in December 1964. When Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to Harlemites about the Jim Crow violence that she'd suffered...
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    civil rights movement. She learned from a newspaper of the death of Fannie Lou Hamer, once a close friend. Parks suffered two broken bones in a fall on...
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    During the Civil Rights Movement that expanded beginning in the 1950s, Fannie Lou Hamer, a farm worker, started a movement for poor people. According to the...
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  • actress Fannie Lee Chaney (1921–2007), American baker turned civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), American voting rights activist Fannie Nampeyo...
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    York, NY: Viking, 2010). ISBN 978-0-670-02170-3 Hamer, Fannie Lou, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like it is', Univ. Press of Mississippi...
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  • He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, whose efforts gained...
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  • engine to derail. In 1963, Sunflower County resident and sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was jailed and beaten for attempting to register to vote. The next...
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  • formed part of the civil rights movement. In the late 60s activist Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the founders of the Freedom Farms Cooperative, an effort...
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  • icons. Her most famous book is This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a 1993 biography of the civil rights leader. Her other books are A...
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  • the instruction of children. Under the influence of Zilphia Horton, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, it eventually became a Civil Rights anthem in the 1950s...
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  • in education. He is the grandson of noted civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer was trained at Gleason's Gym. At the National Championships, he...
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    activists, including Fannie Lou Hamer, whom Carmichael named as one of his personal heroes. SNCC organizer Joann Gavin wrote that Hamer and Carmichael "understood...
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  • Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), American civil rights leader Ferdinand Hamer (1840–1900), Dutch Catholic missionary and bishop in China Forrest Hamer (born...
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  • Legacy of Fannie Hamer, a documentary film about the Mississippi civil rights sharecropper who fought for voting rights. Fannie Lou Hamer is most known...
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    Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Putnam Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon...
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    Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of Freedom Farm Cooperative, speaks on behalf of SNCC regarding African-American rights to vote....
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    Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, ISBN 0-7614-5465-9 Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, 2015. Illustrator Ekua Holmes...
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  • poet Curtis W. Harris, civil rights activist, minister, politician Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist Fred Hampton, civil rights activist Lorraine...
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    she is producing an upcoming four-hour television miniseries about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. The project was...
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