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[blackstar1887]

Unyielding Courage Fannie Lou Hamer's Thunderous Impact on Civil Rights

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[justwatchmyeyes]

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Fannie Hamer

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[padawan-historian]

Harriet said "Hold on"

Zora said "Kinfolk over skinfolk"

Pauli said "Hope is a song"

Fannie said "sick n' tired of bein sick n' tired"

Rosa said "Nah"

Audre said "Enuf"

Cori said "Fuck fascism"

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[readyforevolution]

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[cartermagazine]

Today We Honor Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of twenty children and was raised in a family of sharecroppers, later becoming a sharecropper and plantation worker herself.

In 1962, she was beaten and arrested for attempting to register to vote. After this experience, she devoted her life to the struggle for voting rights and civil rights. Hamer toured the country speaking out in support of civil rights, and also founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

CARTER™️ Magazine

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[sunbookie]

"If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves."

-The Legendary Fannie Lou. 👑🧠✊🏿❤️🖤💚🙏🏿

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[forever70s]

Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964

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[milkandheavysugar]

Activist Fannie Lou Hamer singing to a group of people during the "March Against Fear" (1966). Photos by Jim Peppler

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[standingatthefence]

Doris Derby | Fannie Lou Hamer is seen after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. From “A Civil Rights Journey” by Doris Derby (Mack, 2021).

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[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Fannie Lou Hamer! (October 6, 1917)

A vital force in the Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most prominent black women to occupy a leading role in the movement. An organizer of the Freedom Summer in her native Mississippi, Hamer helped to found the National Women’s Political Caucus, and co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, leading its delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in opposition to the segregationist state party delegation. Continuing in her activism despite her ailing health, Hamer would help found an agricultural cooperative called Freedom Farm in Sunflower County, Mississippi, and run for elected office a number of times before her death in 1977.

“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

#birthdays #fannie lou hamer

[3rdeyeblaque]

On October 6th we venerate Elevated Ancestor Fanny Lou Hamer on her 106th birthday 🎉

A sharecropper turned activist, we owe a great sum of our political power, self-determination, & civil rights to the powerhouse that was Miss Fanny Lou Hamer .

Fanny Lou Hamer was was born to sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. Though having completed her elementary education, Miss Fanny was picking cotton hundreds of pounds of cotton per day in her family's cotton fields. Later as a young woman, her skills in knowing how to read and write earned her a more elevated position within the sharecropping system- as a timekeeper.

Two deliberately cruel and inhumane acts would set Miss Fanny on course to a lifetime of service as a prominent figure and voice of the First Civil Rights Movement.

Unfortunately, Miss Fanny would become a victim of medical apartheid as she, among countless nameless other Black Women, were sterilized without consent via hysterectomy during her hospital day for a routine procedure. This form of medical malpractice was so gruesomely common that, in the Delta, they called it the, "Mississippi appendectomy,” as 6/10 Black Women would be surely sterilized if admitted to the county hospital. Forcibly rendered uable to have any children of her own, Miss Fanny & her husband adopted two baby girls and, later, their eldest's children. From here on out, Miss Fanny spoke out against medical apartheid and for women's reproductive rights.

What molded her into becoming a civil rights leader was the plight of the Mississippi's suppression of voting rights. Miss Fanny attended voting rights meetings and joined 17 of her neighbors on a bus ride to submit applications to register to vote. Their bus was pulled over by police on the way back & the driver was arrested. In that moment, Miss Fanny sang spirituals, particular, “This Little Light of Mine” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain". This and her willingness to challenge the County voting registrar drew the notice of local organizers and the field secretary of the SNCC, Bob Moses.

Singing Negro spirituals became a defining characteristic of Miss Fanny's activism. For two years, she continued her field work for voter registration, desegregation in, and relief work via clothing and food donation/distribution.

Her 1963 arrest in Mississippi en route from a training seminar in S.C. - which was a result of act of protest in such she and other fellow activists sat at the bus station’s Whites-only lunch counter - resulted in her beating by White officers and Black inmates, the arrests of more of their peers, and the assassination of their field secretary. The beating caused permanent damage to her eyes, legs, & kidneys that would impact her capacity for service for the rest of her life. Yet it didn't break her stride toward challenging the dominant Mississippi politics as founding member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. While she did not win office, their audacity & courage drew the nation's eye as one of numerous pivotal steps taken toward achieving Civil Rights.

“ 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. ” - Fanny Lou Hamer

Offering suggestions: libations of water, sing/play African-American spirituals, & flowers

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

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[egalitarianchica]

Nothing says pro-choice like sharing a quote by a pro-lifer 😂 Stan pro-life civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer.

#pro life #pro life feminist #pro life feminism #fannie lou hamer

[usnatarchives]

Her Walk - Fannie Lou Hamer

The civil rights movement of the 20th century was led by a number of prominent figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. While these leaders are well-known and celebrated for their contributions to the movement, there were also many less well-known or prominent leaders who played critical roles in the fight for racial equality.

One such leader is Fannie Lou Hamer. Born in Mississippi in 1917, Hamer was a civil rights activist and leader in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). She was a fierce advocate for voting rights, and her efforts led to the integration of the Mississippi Democratic Party in 1964. 

Hamer was also known for her powerful speeches, including her testimony at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, where she spoke out against the exclusion of MFDP delegates and the continued discrimination against African Americans in the South.

Remarks of Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention

Walk with Me: A Biography of Civil Rights Leader Fannie Lou Hamer

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Fannie Lou Hamer

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“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”

― Fannie Lou Hamer

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[readyforevolution]

“I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the Black man of the South if it would cost my life. I was determined to see that things were changed.”

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist and Humanitarian

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Fannie Lou Hamer

(Oct. 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977)

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[reasoningdaily]

Y'all Betta Vote Like Your Life Depends On It - cause quite frankly it does

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