The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
Or take Mississippi, where there would not have been a sustained movement without women’s activism. Some names have become ...
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SeeHer Story Remembers Fannie Lou Hamer, Black Voting Rights Activist, in Episode 2
SeeHer Story airs every week on PEOPLE.com and @PeopleTV social handles Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...
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Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s. At a rally ...
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe performance to honor legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
BRIEFLY: Boy Scouts Troop 50 to celebrate 70th anniversary; Education Foundation Suncoast Scholars; Punta Gorda and Lakewood Ranch festivals.