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Mississippi Activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s Legacy: A New Film Elevates Her Voice
Mississippi Activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s Legacy: A New Film Elevates Her Voice

I first heard Sweet Honey in the Rock’s rousing song, Fannie Lou Hamer, on a car radio a summer day in 1994 when Nelson Mandela addressed the United Nations General Assembly. The song and the moment were very powerful, but not as strong as Hamer’s own voice, raised in song or to protest conditions for Black Mississippians in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Moses Way Down Mississippi-land: A Tribute in Jackson to an Advocate for Civil Rights and Math Education
Moses Way Down Mississippi-land: A Tribute in Jackson to an Advocate for Civil Rights and Math Education

Some historians of the civil rights movement think Bob Moses, who died in July 2021, was as influential as Martin Luther King Jr., if not more so.

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Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellBennie Thompson, Bob Moses, civil rights movement, Activitst, Algebra Project, Tougaloo College, HBCU, Joan Trumphauer, Freedom Summer, 3 civil rights workers, KKK, James Meredith, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Emmett Till, Young People's Project