“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”

About Fannie Lou Hamer

Activist • American

Fannie Lou Hamer was a prominent American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She co-founded and served as the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party,...