Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s in part because of her resistance to racist voting laws in Mississippi.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer tells a mostly white Madison crowd 'your freedom is shackled and chained to mine. And until I'm free you are not free either.' ...

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.

Emmy and Oscar Nominated Actress Aunjanue Ellis joins Tiffany Cross to discuss her turn starring in the new award-winning short film, 'Fannie' and the legacy of Civil Rights icon 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 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1962, Hamer attended her first meeting of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights group of mostly Black college students who organized nonviolent protests ...