Fannie Lou Hamer

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/4/2021
  

  The Long Brutality

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Two police killings highlight the specifically gendered nature of state violence against Black people, and the particular ways Black women are targeted. In this respect, the history of Black Lives Matter is a long history of Black women's political activism.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/17/2021
  

  He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964

  Senator James Eastland of Mississippi justified his segregationist politics with paternalism. Conditions on his family's plantation showed otherwise. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/18/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer Risked Her Life for the Right to Vote

  Fannie Lou Hamer suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police to demand the right to vote, and challenged the Democratic Party to reject its southern segregationist branch in 1964.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/20/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer’s Dauntless Fight for Black Americans’ Right to Vote

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As Hamer and her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party colleagues pointed out to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, a “whites-only” Democratic Party representing a state in which one out of five residents were black undermined the very notion of representative democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Times (AP)
  1/25/20
  

  Marker will honor civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer

  Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and history professor C. Sade Turnipseed.

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• 10/29/19
  

  Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument

  by Matthew Crawford

  There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/4/19
  

  'God Is Not Going to Put It in Your Lap.' What Made Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Civil Rights So Radical—And So Enduring

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Hamer’s bold message to “get up and try to do something” was one that all Americans committed to change needed to hear

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8-26-14
  

  "I Question America" -- Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer's Famous Speech 50 Years Ago

  by Peter Dreier

  "I question America" is a fitting reflection of the soul-searching that the country is once again going through in the wake of the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri.

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• SOURCE: Playbill
  6-25-14
  

  Benefit Concert of Fannie Lou, New Musical About Civil Rights Activist, Will Play Carnegie Hall

  "The musical Fannie Lou tells the story of Fannie Lou Hamer's voting rights struggle through her eyes and the eyes of various fictional characters, who represent a variety of viewpoints."