In an exclusive interview with theGrio, Fannie Lou Hamer's daughter celebrates her mother on the 42nd anniversary of the civil rights activist's death. The post Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer: On ...

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington, in this Sept. 17, 1965 file photo.

Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS The Associated Press, Updated August 21, 2024, 9:36 a.m.

“Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will premiere as a special presentation from PBS and WORLD Channel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. CT on PBS stations nationwide.

This is addressing Fannie Lou Hamer, who, 60 years ago, testified to the DNC Credentials Committee because she couldn't be a part of the Mississippi delegation.

Fannie Lou Hamer would have turned 100 this year. A civil rights activist who famously stormed Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City during 1964’s Freedom ...

E. Faye Butler stars as 1960s civil rights and voting rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer in “Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer)” directed by Henry Godinez at the Goodman Theatre.

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.

Felton Offard (Music Director-Arrangements) and E. Faye Butler (Fannie Lou Hamer) in Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It! by Cheryl L. West, directed by Henry Godinez. Photo by Liz Lauren.

“Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak on It!” is a shortened version of a longer piece intended to be staged at the Goodman Theatre when conditions allow, and is touring Chicago Park District parks through ...

Fannie Lou Hamer is quoted, perhaps more than any other female activist of her generation. And because of her compelling and heartfelt calls to action during the civil rights movement, she has ...