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Fannie Hamer was born in October 6,1917 in Montgomery country, Mississippi, us. She died on March 14, 1977. Fannie was only 59 when she died from cancer.

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Fannie was the civil rights activist she led voting and was the co-founded the Mississippi freedom of democratic party. She wanted to fight and put her whole into something she believed in. There was an organization called the student nonviolent coordinating committee it was mostly African Americans who wanted to fight for segregations and injustice also. She wanted people to listen and show that it isn't right or fair. Fannie was a woman that didn't fear anything and had a lot of talent. Fannie was a woman of the right of activist, community organizer, and the leader in the civil right movement.

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Frannie's parents were sharecroppers from Montgomery country, then they moved to sunflower country. She was the youngest out of 20 children. Their family invested in livestocks .She started working with her family when she was 6 years old. Fannie was a good student, but she dropped out to help her parents and to work full time. She passed the literacy exam and her and her husband worked at Marlow plantation until 1962. In August of 1962, Fannie and 17 others tried to vote and failed the literacy test so, she got fired but her husband had to stay she moved from homes to homes to be protected.

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Fannie was an remarkable person. She suffered an unwanted hysterectomy from white doctors. Fannie was an gavanizing force the civil rights momvents used he voice to speak up for people that were scared to do so she represented black african american movements throughout 1960 and 1970. In 1962 she helped organize the freedom sumer african americans voter registration drive the native mississippi. Later on she was the democratic National Convention she was apart of the mississippi freedom decomocratic party an integared groups of activist who openly challenged the legaity of all white, segreation delegation. She set up the organzation to increase business opportunites for minorites and to provide childcare and other family serves.

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Fannie was a democartice party because she wanted to help other people that was to scared to say anything. When Fannie Hamer knew the realition of racism, discrimination and poverty. She led to being a leader because of what happened to her and 17 other people she cared alot.

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In 1968, she began a pig bank to provide free pigs for black farmers to breed, raise and slaugers. A year later she launched the freedom farm collectively buying up land that black could own and farm collectively. She also purchased 640 acres and laughed a coop store, boutique and sewing enterprise. She unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and the Mississippi State Senate in 1971. In 1970, she led legal action against the government of Sunflower County, Mississippi for continued illegal segregation.

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Fannie Lou Hamer gave one of the most important speeches of a political convention. Fannie represented the mississippi freedom decomcratic party, she bravely protested the democratic party plans to seat an all white mississippi delegation at the 1964 convention. Hamer became an organizer for the SNCC in the 1962 and dedicated her life to fight for civil rights. She lead the way for voters registration drivers but her involvement in the civil rights movement left her harms way a lot during the activist career, threatened, arrested, beaten and shot at. In 1971 Hamer helped founded the national women's political causes, Hamer turned to econmics as a stragey foe greater racical equality.

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Yes, it does. Fannie Lou Hamer is not well known today, but what she had fight for is still being recognize still today. I never knew the story about what she did, I did know the civil rights movements. Yes, there is still people fighting for their lifes. The movement still hasn't change people are still getting killed, they don't want us to vote or protest and say what we feel or do what we feel.

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he was known as a powerful speaker, and her singing voice lent another power to civil rights meetings. Fannie Lou Hamer brought a Head Start program to her local community, to form a local Pig Bank cooperative in 1968 with the help of the National Council of Negro Women, and later to find the Freedom Farm Cooperative in 1969.

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VOTING RIGHTS ACTIVIST & CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER. FANNIE LOU HAMER born in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest of 20 children.  Raised by hardworking parents who were sharecroppers, she was no stranger to poverty or hardship.  An inspirational speaker and writer, she used her powerful voice to raise the cause of equality and freedom for all blacks in America and became a defining force in the fight against social injustice during the early years of the civil rights movement. In this rare documentary, her struggles and triumphs are expressed through Hamer's own words as well as those of friends and colleagues. While attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer posed the defining question:  "Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave? Where we have to sleep with our telephone off the hook, because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live in peace as human beings in America?"  She will be remembered for winning the right to vote for Black Americans and exposing America's poverty by giving a voice to those in need. This program is an inspiration to anyone who has ever faced oppression and acts as a powerful reminder of what one individual is capable of achieving in the face of adversity. Bonus Material: Each program includes 24 minutes of Bonus material. Copyright: 2009; Resolution: high; Item #: L5732; Privacy: anybody;

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Known for her civil rights activism, Fannie Lou Hamer was called "the spirit of the civil rights movement." Born a sharecropper, she worked from the age of six as a timekeeper on a cotton plantation. Later, she became involved in the Black Freedom Struggle and eventually moved on to become a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Dates: October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977
Also known as: Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

About Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer, born in Mississippi, was working in the fields when she was six and was only educated through the sixth grade. She married in 1942 and adopted two children. She went to work on the plantation where her husband drove a tractor, first as a field worker and then as the plantation's timekeeper. She also attended meetings of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, where speakers addressed self-help, civil rights, and voting rights.

Field Secretary With the SNCC

In 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer volunteered to work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) registering Black voters in the South. She and the rest of her family lost their jobs for her involvement, and SNCC hired her as a field secretary. She was able to register to vote for the first time in her life in 1963 and then taught others what they'd need to know to pass the then-required literacy test. In her organizing work, she often led the activists in singing Christian hymns about freedom: "This Little Light of Mine" and others.

She helped organize the 1964 "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi, a campaign sponsored by SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the NAACP.

In 1963, after being charged with disorderly conduct for refusing to go along with a restaurant's "whites only" policy, Hamer was beaten so badly in jail, and refused medical treatment, that she was permanently disabled.

Founding Member and VP of the MFDP

Because African Americans were excluded from the Mississippi Democratic Party, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was formed, with Fannie Lou Hamer as a founding member and vice president. The MFDP sent an alternate delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, with 64 Black and 4 white delegates. Fannie Lou Hamer testified to the convention's Credentials Committee about violence and discrimination faced by Black voters trying to register to vote, and her testimony was televised nationally.

The MFDP refused a compromise offered to seat two of their delegates and returned to further political organizing in Mississippi, and in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1972

From 1968 to 1971, Fannie Lou Hamer was a member of the Democratic National Committee for Mississippi. Her 1970 lawsuit, Hamer v. Sunflower County, demanded school desegregation. She ran unsuccessfully for the Mississippi state Senate in 1971, and successfully for delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1972.

Other Accomplishments

She also lectured extensively, and was known for a signature line she often used, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." She was known as a powerful speaker, and her singing voice lent another power to civil rights meetings.

Fannie Lou Hamer brought a Head Start program to her local community, to form a local Pig Bank cooperative (1968) with the help of the National Council of Negro Women, and later to found the Freedom Farm Cooperative (1969). She helped found the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971, speaking for the inclusion of racial issues in the feminist agenda.

In 1972 the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring her national and state activism, passing 116 to 0.

Suffering from breast cancer, diabetes, and heart problems, Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mississippi in 1977. She had published To Praise Our Bridges: An Autobiography in 1967. June Jordan published a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer in 1972, and Kay Mills published This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer in 1993.

Background, Family

Father: Jim Townsend

Mother: Ella Townsend

youngest of 20 children

born in Montgomery County, Mississippi; family moved when she was two to Sunflower County, Mississippi

Hamer attended the segregated school system in Mississippi, with a short school year to accommodate fieldwork as a child of a sharecropping family. She dropped out by 6th grade.

Marriage, Children

Husband: Perry "Pap" Hamer (married 1942; tractor driver)

Children (adopted): Dorothy Jean, Vergie Ree

Baptist

Organizations

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), others

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Fannie was the civil rights activist she led voting and was the co-founded the Mississippi freedom of democratic party. She wanted to fight and put her whole into something she believed in. There was an organization called the student nonviolent coordinating committee it was mostly African Americans who wanted to fight for segregations and injustice also. She wanted people to listen and show that it isn't right or fair. Fannie was a woman that didn't fear anything and had a lot of talent. Fannie was a woman of the right of activist, community organizer, and the leader in the civil right movement. 