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Hamer

American  
[hay-mer] / ˈheɪ mər /

noun

  1. Fannie Lou, 1917–77, U.S. civil rights activist.


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All five started at the Emirates, while fellow new arrivals, Gustavo Hamer from Sheffield United and striker Taiwo Awoniyi from Nottingham Forest, came on as substitutes.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

“The prolonged time to identify a confirmed source for this cyclospora outbreak is unusual,” said David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at Boston University, in an email.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Civil rights activist and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was weary when she spoke alongside Malcolm X at a church in Harlem in December 1964.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

“The innovations of Black agriculturalists like George Washington Carver and Fannie Lou Hamer inspire me every day,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

In Mississippi, a woman my age named Fannie Lou Hamer had been fired from her job and forced out of her home just for registering to vote.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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