Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who helped African-Americans register to vote and co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Click to read more facts and information or download the worksheet collection.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer was the vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, as well as a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which organized the Freedom Summer voter registration drives. ...
By 1964, civil activist Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the leaders of the Freedom Summer Campaign, which gathered as many African Americans in Mississippi to register and vote. On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was attended by about 250,000 people, the largest...
Fannie Lou Hamer was an African American civil rights activist, cofounder (in 1964), and vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which was established as an alternative to the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party. Her book,
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Native American activist LaDonna Harris, and writer and journalist Gloria Steinem, formed groups to organize for women’s rights and raise awareness of the necessity of women’s liberation. The National Organization for Women (NOW) ...
Other notable figures in SNCC includedElla Baker,Julian Bond,Rubye Robinson, andFannie Lou Hamer. The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated byAdam Augustyn. Load Next Page