Fannie Lou Hamer
Politician, Organization founder
1917 – 1977
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Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader.
She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity. Her plain-spoken manner and fervent belief in the Biblical righteousness of her cause gained her a reputation as an electrifying speaker and constant activist of civil rights.
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- Born
- Oct 6, 1917
Montgomery County - Also known as
- Fannie Lou Townsend
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Spouses
- Perry "Pap" Hamer
(1944 - 1977/03/15)
- Perry "Pap" Hamer
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Mississippi
- Died
- Mar 14, 1977
Mound Bayou
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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