Hamer
Fannie Lou, 1917–77, U.S. civil rights activist.
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In 1962, Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper with little formal schooling when she decided to attend a voting rights organizing meeting at a local church.
What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists | Kenneth Mack | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostIt is Hamer’s genuineness — evident in everything she said and did — that makes it so alluring and so perilous to invoke her legacy.
What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists | Kenneth Mack | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostBlain contends that Hamer can provide “a blueprint for tackling a range of contemporary social issues.”
What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists | Kenneth Mack | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostHer reputation has only grown in recent decades, aided by a spate of biographies and books, a play about her life, and even an invocation of Hamer by then-Sen.
What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists | Kenneth Mack | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostOver the years, Saha and Hamer have introduced small groups of athletes and entertainers from different fields into the app in stages to get their feedback and insight as to what they need.
Former Manchester United footballer Louis Saha is helping athletes become media entrepreneurs | Seb Joseph | June 24, 2021 | Digiday
In 1962, Hamer attended a meeting about black voter registration sponsored by SNCC.
Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired' | Lottie L. Joiner | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBorn in Montgomery County, Miss., Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of 20 children.
Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired' | Lottie L. Joiner | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHamer died March 17, 1977 from complications of heart disease and breast cancer.
Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired' | Lottie L. Joiner | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation.
Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired' | Lottie L. Joiner | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHamer declared in her plaintive, outspoken way: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!”
Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired' | Lottie L. Joiner | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe park-like lands of Foxholes and Hamer lie close by the north side of the road.
Lancashire Sketches | Edwin WaughWe sell'd that to pay th' doctor's bill when poor owd Hamer next door had th' fever soa long.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series | John HartleyI have said before that Hamer was one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Ulysses S. Grant"And give promise of more novel but less savoury entertainment," said Hamer of Hamer.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) | John RobyHamer was, however, a man of strength and sound judgment, and for this reason proved very useful to the volunteers.
The War With Mexico, Volume I (of 2) | Justin H. Smith
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