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Fannie Lou Hamer was born into a large family of sharecroppers in Mississippi in 1917, and moved to Ruleville with her husband in 1944. In 1962, she traveled to a courthouse in Indianola with 17 other African Americans in order to vote. Only 2 of them got to register before state law enforcement placed the group in jail where they were abused. Hamer also lost her job and home, and then became a community organizer for SNCC to advocate for equal voting rights. She helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964, which brought more attention to the struggles faced by black Americans.

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The Democratic Party in the south was made up entirely of white representatives, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was formed to encourage black Americans’ political involvement.

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Can heal victims of racial violence with her touch

Can register people to vote with a wave of her magic wand

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Fellow SNCC and MFDP member

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Protested the Mississippi House Election with Fannie Lou Hamer in 1964

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Keys to release people who were unfairly imprisoned

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“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”

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Magic wand she can wave to make someone registered to vote