Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was 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 (SNCC), 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.…more
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Books with Fannie Lou Hamer
March: Book Three (March, #3)
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2016
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
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1998
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This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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1993
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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
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2021
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The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
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2008
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