Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

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Fannie Lou Hamer Honored At New Obama Presidential Center

The signage of the new Fannie Lou Hamer Walkway at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, IL

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The Fannie Lou Hamer Walkway leads visitors to the entrance of the new Obama Presidential Center

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Fannie Lou Hamer Awarded 2025 Presidential Medal Of Freedom

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Broadcast nationally on PBS and WORLD Channel in 2022, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is an original documentary told through the public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. Known for being “sick and tired of being sick and tired” and her impassioned pleas for equal rights, Fannie Lou Hamer helped change laws and was very influential in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Besides her political advocacies during the 1960s, Hamer was also a humanitarian, providing clothing, housing, educational opportunities for the poor, and food for thousands through her Freedom Farm Cooperative and Pig Bank.

Through this continuous educational site, created and maintained by Hamer’s family, and the foremost Fannie Lou Hamer historians, authors and scholars, you’ll see and hear Fannie Lou Hamer as you never have before!

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