Search results
Hace 6 días · Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested, thrown in jail, and then beat down in her jail cell because she wanted to vote. She was 46 years old. She died at 59 years old - just 4 years older than I am today. In the 1964 presidential election, I don’t think Hamer “fucked” with President Johnson or Barry Goldwater. But I’m damn sure she voted for one ...
9 de may. de 2024 · The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer : To Tell It Like It Is (ebook) by Maegan Parker Brooks (Editor); Davis W. Houck (Editor) This link opens in a new window; Call Number: Online - Ebook Central. ISBN: 9781604738230. Publication Date: 2011-01-03. This Little Light of Mine : The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer.
14 de may. de 2024 · Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1964. After the Supreme Court struck down legal segregation in schools with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the fight for equal access in other arenas intensified. In Montgomery, Alabama, African Americans boycotted segregated buses; people filed ...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Published April 25, 2024 at 8:00 AM CDT. Alex Leffall. Liz Mikel stars in the upcoming one-woman show "Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer," which runs May 2-18 at Bishop Arts Theatre ...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Fannie Lou Hamer didn’t know she had the right to vote until she was 44. It was 1962 in the Jim Crow South, and poll taxes, literacy tests and other discriminatory, often violent practices ...
Hace 6 días · This is a primary source. It does so because it is a first person narrative written by Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer. It is her testimony telling her experience during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The material which firsthand evidence or direct evidence about an event, object, person, or art is known as primary source. Hamer’s speech is more specifically a primary source since she is ...
1 de may. de 2024 · Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, in Ruleville, Mississippi. She was a trailblazing, African American civil rights activist who worked to desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party. The youngest of 20 children, Fannie Lou was working the fields with her sharecropper parents at the age of six. Amid poverty and racial exploitation ...
