Fannie Lou Hamer
Birthday: 1917-10-06
Place of Birth: Mississippi, USA
Biography: Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention
Movies
Freedom Summer
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying ...
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-ri...
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The Heritage of Slavery - Of Black America
News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains ...
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We'll Never Turn Back
"We'll Never Turn Back" was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration dr...
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Freedom on My Mind
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964....
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