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. 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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marlee Bunch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (THE CONVERSATION) It ...