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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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That Little Light of Hers Shines On and On: How Fannie Lou Hamer Rocked Mississippi for Civil Rights
That Little Light of Hers Shines On and On: How Fannie Lou Hamer Rocked Mississippi for Civil Rights

Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the tall, dapper congressman who represented Harlem, wanted to be sure the short, stout sharecropper from Mississippi in a borrowed dress understood how important and powerful he was.

“I know who you are,” Fannie Lou Hamer told him.

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Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellAdam Clayton Powell Jr, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi sharecropper, 1964 Democratic National Convention, Mississippi Freedom Party, picking cotton, right to vote, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, This Little Light of Mine, Mississippi appendectomy, Bennie Thompson, Rueville