Have you heard of Fannie Lou Hamer? It's probably been within the last five years that I've heard her name. I bought a shirt from Target with a list of Black women's names on it and hers was there. I knew about Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, but didn't know anything about Fannie Lou Hamer. I decided to research her and boy did I learn some things. She was a resilient Black woman.
Thank God for her unconquerable soul! Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer was born October 6, 1917 in the Mississippi Delta, the last of 20 children born to sharecroppers Lou Ella and James Townsend, the National Women’s History Museum reports. Hamer began picking cotton at age 6 and left school to help her family at age 12. […]
This image is printed on high quality semi-gloss photo paper, creating a beautiful reproduction print. It arrives ready to frame. All of our prints are made on demand one-at-a-time, just for you -- not mass-produced. About this image... Title: Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Delegate, At The Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964. Photographer: Leffler, Warren K. Summary: Photograph shows half-length portrait of Hamer seated at a table. Date: 1964 Aug. 22. Subject: Democratic National Convention--(1964 :--Atlantic City, N.J.)--People. Subject: Hamer, Fannie Lou--Public appearances--New Jersey--Atlantic City. Subject: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party--People--New Jersey--Atlantic City--1960-1970.
Dr. Monica M. White shares an excerpt from her new book, Freedom Farmers, with the work of Fannie Lou Hamer leading the charge as an example of social justice through agriculture.
Louis Draper resisted labels. He knew that they could confine, like boxes, but much worse, they might be like prison cells: impossible to escape.
These Juneteenth quotes and sayings from Black leaders and figures discuss the significance of Juneteenth as well as how far America has gone and how far we still have to go in the ongoing struggle for equality.
Check out this thought provoking quote from Fannie Lou Hamer!
Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6, 1917—March 14, 1977) was a civil rights activist. She fought to expand voting rights for African Americans. Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi, during a time of segregation. African Americans in the…
This paper examines Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms, a 1969 farming cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Specifically, this paper interrogates how Hamer's identity as a Black southern woman...
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta.
B is for beautiful, brave, and bright! This picture book takes a bold journey through the alphabet of black history and culture. Letter by letter, the abcs of black history celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. In addition to rhyming text, the book includes back matter with information on the events, places, and people mentioned in the poem, from Mae Jemison to W. E. B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer to Sam Cooke, and the Little Rock Nine to DJ Kool Herc. By Rio Cortez. Illustrated by Lauren Semmer. 64 pages. Age range 5 - 99.
Hamer’s bold message to “get up and try to do something” was one that all Americans committed to change needed to hear in 1964.
Influential african american woman in United States history. Fannie Lou Hamer sticker, American Civil Rights activist. Co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Fannie Lou Hamer was a political activist from Montgomery County, Mississippi. She spent much of her time working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a group of students who worked …
Posted October 6, 2018 Sometimes I go onto college campuses, or door-to-door, or other public places, and I encourage people to register to vote and to actually EXERCISE the right to vote. In other words, it's frustrating when people who can, won't or don't. So many people have worked so hard to earn the right to vote, and for most of us it's the easiest and most fundamental power we have to shape our government and future. Today's famous birthday, Fannie Lou Hamer, was supposed to have the right to vote where she lived, in Mississippi. Black men had been granted the right to vote waaaaaay back in 1850, and women had been granted the right to vote in 1920, just a few years after Hamer was born (on this date in 1917). But you may have heard that Jim Crow laws in the South did a ton to maintain racial segregation and also to make it really hard for black people to actually vote. How hard? Hamer was threatened and harassed, extorted and assaulted and even shot at when she tried to register to vote or to actually cast a vote! And it wasn't some just some crazed fanatics abusing Hamer when she was trying to exercise her right to vote. It was police officers and supposedly upright citizens. Cops and citizens who were thoroughly racist, of course. White supremacists. But white supremacists who held all the power in Mississippi. Hamer got involved with civil rights activism. She ended up helping lots of African-American people register to vote and to improve their lives. She ran for the Mississippi State Senate and also to be the Mississippi Senator at the national level - and she lost those races, but the effort of trying to run must have made a very visible difference to other black people. She was a co-founder of an organization to recruit and train women of all races who want to run for elected office. Hamer and other activists won a huge victory when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Those laws should have ended segregation in the South and removed all the barriers to voting erected in the South. But, as you probably already know, just because there's a law, that doesn't mean people follow the law. So of course racial problems remained. Hamer was one of the leaders who sued to achieve integration and to make white people follow the law. It's always interesting to read about the background of the strong black women I focus on. In Hamer's case, she was the youngest of 20 children of sharecroppers, she started picking cotton at age 6, and she had polio that left her with a disfigured leg. She learned to read and was able to attend a one-room school located on the cotton plantation, between picking seasons, but she had to quit school at age 12 to take care of her parents. It all sounds REALLY difficult, but Fannie Lou Hamer didn't let all the bad stuff stop her. She pushed back, pushed forward, and pushed society - and we should all be grateful for her push! Also on this date: German-American Day Physician Assistant Day Remembrance Day in Turkmenistan Mad Hatter Day Inventor George Westinghouse's birthday Birthday of tennis player Helen Wills Ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl's birthday World Card Making Day (First Saturday of October) Anniversary of the first and only human-powered circumnavigation Plan ahead: Check out my Pinterest boards for: October holidays October birthdays Historical anniversaries in October And here are my Pinterest boards for: November holidays November birthdays Historical anniversaries in November
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford , illustrated by Ekua Holme...
This google slide show includes numerous linked videos, 2 readings (excerpts from Letters from Birmingham Jail and the Kerner Commission) with questions, and shines a spotlight on voting rights activists (Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis). It generally takes me 3 classes. I have used it for both APUS...
It was the power of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer’s singing that first brought her to the attention of SNCC.
We Are Not Free Big Magnet by Lisa Congdon. 2.25" round Super Strong Flat Magnet Back Artwork based on an original quote by the phenomenal civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free"
Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony at the 1964 DNC shook the nation and highlighted the fact that many people didn't realize that Hamer had a disability — or how it played into her activism.
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This worksheet is designed for high school students (Grades 9-12) and is based on the "History Daily" podcast episode titled "Fannie Lou Hamer Testifies at the Democratic National Convention." It consists of 10 questions that explore the life and impact of Fannie Lou Hamer, a prominent civil rights ...
The civil rights activist was a musician as well. A new collection of her music, Songs My Mother Taught Me, has just been reissued by the Smithsonian Institution.
Make a statement with this notebook. It features an image of Fannie Lou Hamer on the front. The pages are lined for easy writing. Notebook measures 7x5 inches.
