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When Hamer was given a chance to speak about the violence she experienced in Mississippi, she told the world how she had been beaten and brutalized when she attempted to register others to vote. Her testimony attracted the attention of millions. Freedom Summer of 1964 was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.
Biografie. Die große schwarze Bürgerrechtskämpferin Fannie Lou Hamer wurde als zwanzigstes Kind ihrer Eltern 1917 im ländlichen Mississippi geboren. Mit sechs begann sie auf den Baumwollfeldern zu arbeiten. 1944 entdeckte der Besitzer der Plantage, dass Fannie lesen und schreiben konnte und machte sie zur Aufseherin.
Fannie Lou Hamer challenged core aspects of the women’s liberation movements, especially the feminists’ one-dimensional view of relations between the sexes and their stances on birth control and other aspects of reproductive rights.
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was the first woman from Mississippi to be an official delegate at a national party convention and the first African American since the Reconstruction period. Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the youngest of 20 children….
2 giorni fa · Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.
5 ott 2017 · Fannie Lou Hamer—born Oct. 6, 1917—became famous for her words, from "I question America" to "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed a nation’s perspective on democracy. Hamer became involved in the civil rights movement when she volunteered to attempt to register to vote in 1962. By then, 45 years old and a mother, Hamer lost her job and continually risked her life because of her civil rights activism.
