Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an
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.
Hamer did not write
any books, but many have been written about her. Most of us are aware of the
impassioned testimony Hamer gave at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
But Hamer also gave speeches at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, and even spoke
with Malcolm X in Harlem. 
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