29Sep2010 Filed under: Activism, Black History, Black Women, Black in America, Civil Rights Movement, Community Organizing, Progressives, Youth Empowerment Author: Jonathan JelksWe Remember Civil Rights Activist & Politico Fannie Lou Hamer!!!
Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader.
She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 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 champion of civil rights.
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Fannie Lou Hamer: Speech To The DNC 1964. I made this video because no one had a video of this important speech. Never forget these brave americans who fought to be first class citizens.