When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer ... address. Hamer spoke on the topic at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and also joined forces with Martin Luther King, Jr. during her established ...
Today she is the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection ... Some names have become well known, ...
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.
It was Martin Luther King ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and ...
BRIEFLY: Boy Scouts Troop 50 to celebrate 70th anniversary; Education Foundation Suncoast Scholars; Punta Gorda and Lakewood Ranch festivals.