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Hace 1 día · We pay homage to one such rememberer, Fannie Lou Hamer, who said, “When you have 400 quarts of greens and gumbo soup canned for the winter, no one can push you around or tell you what to say or do.” In 1969, Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative on forty acres of prime Delta land.
Hace 4 días · While the murders of three civil rights workers focused national attention on Mississippi, the MFDP, led by Fannie Lou Hamer, failed in its attempt to unseat the regular all-white delegation at the 1964 National Democratic Convention.
Hace 1 día · In 1961, acclaimed Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the women to receive the unwanted surgical procedure that left her unable to bear children. The practice was state-sanctioned, upheld by the Supreme Court, and extended into at least 1980 .
Hace 1 día · Download Audiobooks narrated by Fannie Lou Hamer to your device. Audible provides the highest quality audio and narration. Your first book is Free with trial!
Hace 4 días · Thanks to the work of civil rights activists — including John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer and Martin Luther King Jr. — public opinion shifted. In the 1960s, Congress passed additional legal measures to protect the voting rights of Black Americans.
Hace 3 días · In 1964, African Americans in Mississippi who had been denied the right to vote formed their own political party, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Members traveled to New Jersey to attend the Democratic National Convention, and one of their delegates, Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke at the convention.
Hace 11 horas · The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.
