Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires.

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... During her powerful testimony, Johnson called a last-minute press conference, causing the networks to break with their convention coverage and broadcast ...

It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly ... networks broadcast Hamer’s Aug. 22, 1964, testimony before the Democratic Convention ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's fight for voting rights in 1964 remains relevant today as states continue to enact voter suppression tactics. While Black political representation has increased, many elected ...

Hamer's vivid testimony about fighting for the right ... delegation was seated at the convention four years later, Fannie Lou Hamer was sitting there with them," Waters said, adding, "Here we ...

Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly ...

The Fannie Lou Hamer Farm Project is a student-led initiative focused on “Black wellness and land-based learning and healing” on campus through farming and workshops centered around food access, among ...