From Ruleville, Miss., to the U.S. Capitol, groups, lawmakers and others are celebrating the work of the late civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer.

(Updated 10/6/2017) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi-born civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is being commemorated Friday on what would have been her 100th birthday. Community gatherings ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's daughter will share stories of the civil rights icon's trials and triumphs at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. Skip to content Local News ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi-born civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is being commemorated Friday on what would have been her 100th birthday. Community gatherings are being held in her ...

When Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to a predominantly white audience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971, the civil rights icon spoke of the time when she was 13 and asked her mother a ...

Fannie Lou Hamer grew up in dire circumstances in Jim Crow-era and went on to become an inspiring civil rights leader in the 1960s. Historian Kate Clifford Larson penned a recent biography about ...

A documentary about Mississippi Delta sharecropper and civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer will open the 10th season of the Emmy award-winning PBS series, America ReFramed.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is providing funding to help produce a documentary on the life and legacy of Mississippi native and civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer.

Hamer was also an early public figure to openly oppose the Vietnam War. And a group trip to Ghana, in 1964, sparked her to conceive her mission anew in terms of human rights globally, not just ...

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., invoked the memory of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights leader who brought a group of Black delegates to the 1964 DNC in Atlantic City.

Musical about civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer gets Pittsburgh premiere 90.5 WESA | By Bill O'Driscoll Published January 9, 2023 at 5:30 AM EST ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- A documentary about Mississippi Delta sharecropper and civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer will open the 10th season of the Emmy award-winning PBS series, America ReFramed.