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Dedicated to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, a new documentary told in her own words now streaming and an educational website featuring a K-12 curriculum.
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Jackie was the last living child of Pap and Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Fannie Lou Hamer (Oct. 6, 1917 - Oct. 6, 2017)
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"...I'm not ashamed of being Black. I'm not ashamed of my history. [In] 1962, nobody knew that I existed. Nobody. And I hadn't heard of them...Then one day, the 31st of August [1962], I walked...off the plantation, and from that time up until now I met a lot of people." - FLH
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"Nobody's free until everybody's free." - Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and humanitarian (b. 1917 - d. 1977)
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"I don’t want you to say, 'Honey, I’m behind you.' Well, move, I don’t want you back there. Because you could be 200 miles behind. I want you to say, 'I’m with you.' And we’ll go up this freedom road together."
- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian.
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"We don’t have anything to be ashamed of. All we have to do is trust God and launch out into the deep. You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian
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Two men from Lincoln, Nebraska in the early 1900s.
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"...I’ve been tired so long. Now, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and we want a change."
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Fannie Lou Hamer helped change laws & was very influential in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She was also a humanitarian, providing clothing, housing, educational opportunities, and food for thousands through her Freedom Farm Cooperative and Pig Bank.
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A sharecropper grabbing a bite in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1937.
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"You can pray until you faint. But if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap. And I believe...that one day...if I have to die for this...we shall overcome."
- Fannie Lou Hamer (b. 1917 - d. 1977) civil rights activist and humanitarian.
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"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."
- James Baldwin, writer and activist.
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On February 21, 2009, the United States Postal Service honored Evers and Hamer with a postage stamp. It was Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, who insisted the two be paired together in the Civil Rights Series.
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“So, what I’m saying, if there’s going to be any survival for this country…we have to make democracy a reality for all people and not just a few.” – Fannie Lou Hamer
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"I was led out of that cell...to...where they had two Negroes...The first Negro beat me [w/a blackjack] until he was exhausted...Then the second Negro beat me...I must have passed out...After a while I did get up and went back to my cell." - Fannie Lou Hamer on her jail beating.
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A photo of Fannie Lou Hamer taken by the FBI after the beating. The 5 white law enforcement officials were later charged & arrested for the brutal assaults against Hamer & her colleagues. At their trial, the jury, which consisted of all white men, found them not guilty.
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Black Teens From New Orleans Solve Math Problem Believed to Be Impossible For 2,000 Years—Black excellence! ✊🏾
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��Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin, writer and activist
Baldwin (left) pictured with James Meredith (right) in 1963, a year after Meredith became the first Black student admitted to the University of MS.
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"[Although] my daughter was taken, she left me 2 little darling girls to love and do for. I don’t have everything. But one thing I know, they are rich with love. I love them so very, very much. That make a part of my life beautiful." - Fannie Lou Hamer (Pic:Hamer, Nook & Cookie).
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"We know as well as you know that this country was built on the blood & sweat of Black people. And all we are saying to you today, now what you have done in the past, you've done that. But we can't let you get away with just trying to wipe us out as human beings." - F. Lou Hamer
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Jacqueline "Cookie" Hamer Flakes (1966 - 2023)
Daughter of Pap and Fannie Lou Hamer
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"We can no longer ignore the fact that we can’t sit down and wait for things to change. Because as long as they can keep their feet on our neck, they will always do it. But it’s time for us to stand up and be women and men." - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer
(Oct. 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977)
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This Month In History: May 23, 1921: Shuffle Along was the first major African-American hit musical on Broadway. The show lasted for 484 performances, proving that audiences would pay to see black performers.
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"If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off." - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
To view Fannie Lou Hamer's full obituary:
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"So, whether you Black as a skillet or white as a sheet, we are made from the same blood and we are on our way!"
- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian.
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The Tricycle Gang.
Four children riding their trykes on Herkimer Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s. Photo by Joe Schwartz.
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Ice Cream!!!!!!
Triplets enjoying the treat in 1965.
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Former sports star Bo Jackson covered all funeral expenses for the families of the victims of the Uvalde school massacre “so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved,” he said. He presented a check for $170,000 to the govenor to cover the expenses.
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At 5 pm, on Monday, March 14, 1977, activist & humanitarian Fannie Lou Hamer closed her eyes for the very last time. But her legacy lives on.
(Fannie Lou Hamer: Oct. 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977)
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Two of the world's greatest...Muhammad Ali and Little Stevie Wonder.
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“We was in jail from [Sunday] until Wednesday without seeing a doctor…I have a blood clot now in the artery to the left eye and a permanent kidney injury on the right side from that beating…I was in jail when Medgar Evers was killed." - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Three lovely Howard University students lounging between classes.
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Dr. Martin Luther King spoke in Grenada, Mississippi after a white mob attacked Black students.
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On Dec. 25, 1962, To Kill a Mockingbird, a film based on the 1960 novel opened in theaters. The Great Depression-era story of racial injustice when Atticus (Gregory Peck) goes to court to defend a Black man, Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), falsely accused of raping a white woman.
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Husband and wife singing duo (Nick) Ashford and Simpson (Valerie) take a stroll.
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A powerful community organizer, Fannie Lou Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the all-white local Democratic Party’s efforts to block Black participation.
She died at the age of 59 on March 14, 1977.
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"When I got to the county jail...I began to hear screams and howls...Ms. Ponder passed my cell. She didn’t recognize me...One of her eyes looked like blood, and her mouth was swollen...[They] told me, 'We is going to make you wish you was dead.' - Fannie Lou Hamer on her arrest.
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A young mother and her baby after receiving a milk delivery in 1922.
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So many spoke at Fannie Lou Hamer's funeral, there wasn't enough daylight to bury her. She was buried the next day. Pictured below: Hamer's husband, Perry (Pap) & his daughter, Linnie.
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A Detroit, Michigan couple on Sunday morning in 1950. Photo by Gordon Parks.
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“I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman.
Tubman escaped to freedom in 1849, but returned to Maryland & helped others gain freedom by 1860. Nicknamed, "Moses," she died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913.
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As the father of a sharecropper family working a six-acre farm in 1939, this 69-year-old Person County man sat on his porch and said, “Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest.”
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was established on April 26, 1964 & was open to all races. Founded by civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Bob Moses & others, the MFDP organized voter registration drives for Black people throughout the state.
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The McDonogh Three were 3 girls, who, at the age of six, were the 1st black students to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960. Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Etienne lived in the 9th Ward, a neighborhood where Black and white people lived separately by block.
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Legendary crooner John Royce Mathis, 89, better known as Johnny Matthis was born in Gilmer, TX on Sept. 30, 1935.
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The Iconic Ladies of Soul: (l to r) Candi Staton (84), Denise Williams (72), Melba Moore (78), Regina Belle (60) and Anita Ward (67). All aging gracefully.
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Some of the first students at Spelman College which opened in 1881.
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"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired...People would have no idea how tired I would be." - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian.
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This Month In History: March 23, 1968: Walter Fauntroy, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., became the first non-voting congressional delegate from the District of Columbia since Reconstruction.
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"So, whether you Black as a skillet or white as a sheet. We are made from the same blood and we are on our way!" - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) activist and humanitarian
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Georgia mid-wife, Mary Francis Hill Coley, bathes a newborn baby a day after she delivered it in 1952. Born in 1900, in 30 years, Coley delivered more than 3,000 babies. She was known for her willingness to serve both Black & white mothers in the segregated south.
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Henry Kirklin was a former slave who became a prize-winning gardener & horticulturalist. He may have been the first Black person to teach at the University of Missouri - which didn't allow Blacks to hold official teaching positions during his lifetime.
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Fannie Lou Hamer and Bernice Johnson Reagon perform Freedom Songs at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 with Guy Carawan (left) and Len Chandler (right). Photo by Diana Davies.
This archival video is featured in our film, Fannie Lou Hamer's America.
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A 7-foot statue of civil rights icon, Fannie Lou Hamer, was donated by Stockton University Professor Dr. Patricia Reid-Merritt, to Atlantic City commemmorating her historic speech at the Democratic National Convention on the boardwalk nearly 60 years ago.
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Funeral services for Fannie Lou Hamer as covered in the April 1977 JET Magazine. Those who spoke at her service included Dorothy Height, Ella Baker, Vernon Jordan and Stokely Carmichael. Andrew Young delivered the eulogy.
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Precious. An unidentified woman and child from 1959.
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In 1972, Michele Clark was a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago. In July she was named as a CBS News Correspondent (she was the first Black female). Her major responsibilities involved coverage of the 1972 presidential primaries. Clark was killed on Dec. 8, 1972, in a plane crash.
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Mississippi sharecropper and his daughter listen to a Victrola.
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On Aug. 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer went before the Democratic National Convention & told about the violent assault she & several others endured while in jail in Winona, MS in June of 63. A beating that left her permanently scarred, both mentally & physically.
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Feeding time on the farm. A mother and her child in 1939 in Granville County, North Carolina.
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Atoy Wilson broke the racial barrier in 1966 when he became not only the first Black athlete to compete at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but also to win a national title in figure skating.
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"We know this flag is drenched with our blood...This country was built on the black backs of black people across this country...And people ought to understand that...They know what they’ve done to us. All across this country, they know what they’ve done to us." - Fannie Lou Hamer
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Harlem, New York youngsters dressed in their Sunday's best.
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