Fannie Hamer
Fannie Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamerwas an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth6 October 1917
CityMontgomery County, MS
bit point seemed since time trying
What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.
gets gives man ready remember white
If the white man gives you anything -- just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
life motivational sick tired
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.