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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Fannie Lou Hamer 1917-1977
Fannie Lou Hamer, after speaking at the National Democratic Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 1968
Photograph: Doris Derby
‘I was the production assistant and photographer for Southern Media at this convention. Between the 1964 and 1968 conventions, Mississippi delegates had done a lot of work and had gained knowledge and experience in what they had to do to get out the Black vote, unseat the Mississippi white Democratic Party, and introduce the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.’
‘Now is a continuation of then’: America’s civil rights era – in pictures Doris Derby is a documentary photographer, activist and professor who captured the people at the frontline of the struggle for racial equality in 1960s and 1970s America G Thu 28 Oct 2021 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/28/
The voting-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1965.
She established a communal farm in hopes of helping black Mississippians gain self-sufficiency.
Photograph: William J. Smith Associated Press
The Resistance Is Hungry NYT OCT. 5, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/
Fannie Lou Hamer speaks as a Mississippi Freedom Democratic party delegate prior to the formal meeting of the Democratic national convention in August 1964.
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Jailed. Beaten. Yet 1960s activist Fannie Lou Hamer stood up to white supremacy – comic G Fri 12 Jun 2020 11.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/
Fannie Lou Hamer 1917-1977
voting-rights activist (who) established a communal farm in hopes of helping black Mississippians gain self-sufficiency
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/28/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/
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