The political efforts of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer are a case in point. Sixty years ago this Aug. 22, Hamer delivered an electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention in ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She described how she was fired from her plantation job in retaliation for trying ...

Fannie Lou Hamer walked with a limp and still had a blood clot behind her eye from being severely beaten by police in a Mississippi jail. She was the youngest of 20 children born to sharecroppers ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

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A member of the WOWT staff since 1990, Roger Hamer has covered everything from National Championship games to presidential visits. A life-long resident of the Omaha area, Hamer is a Producer ...

Almost 60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer took the podium at the Democratic National Convention and made a speech that challenged the party for its failure to support Black Americans' right to vote.

AMY GOODMAN: Let’s talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Shirley Chisholm comes after Fannie Lou Hamer — BARBARA RANSBY: Yeah. AMY GOODMAN: — the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers, who became ...

CHICAGO — On Aug. 22, 1964, Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer delivered an iconic speech at the Democratic National Convention, taking the party to task for its failure to ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. Recommended Videos She described how she was fired from her plantation job in ...

Hamer has already been the subject of appreciation this week, as the Democrats' convention began Monday. “Our challenge as ...