Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour
Welcome to the Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour, an online journey through places in Mississippi and in Atlantic City that shaped her life, activism, and enduring legacy.This digital experience introduces visitors to sites in Ruleville, Winona, Kilmichael, and nearby Delta communities where Fannie Lou Hamer organized, spoke, worshiped, and transformed American history through her fight for voting rights, civil rights, and human dignity.And through most of our short videos, Fannie Lou Hamer herself tells of the significance of that location - through word and song.Welcome To The Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour! Song: Walk With Me sung by Fannie Lou Hamer
Go on a journey with Fannie Lou Hamer!
All videos were filmed by Tommy Kirkpatrick of CommonHouse Productions and select scenes were taken from our award-winning film, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America with videography by our director, editor and music composer Joy Elaine Davenport, Pablo Correa and R.J. Fitzpatrick. The videos for the Driving Tour were produced by Monica Land and Tommy Kirkpatrick and funded by the generosity of the Mississippi Humanities Council and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Atlantic City video was funded by Visit Atlantic City and the footage was shot by Pernell Pounce of SSS Productions. We are working on our next set of sites crucial to Fannie Lou Hamer's advocacy and humanitarianism, including those in other states. Please donate towards our future productions!
Tomnolen, Mississippi
Shady Grove Methodist Church (The Marshall's Cemetery)
William Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Ruleville, MS
Sunflower County Courthouse, Indianola, MS
Montgomery County Jail
M.W. Stringer Masonic Lodge
626 East Lafayette St., Ruleville, MS
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Freedom Farm Cooperative
Taborian Hospital, Mound Bayou, MS
Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Gardens
Fannie Lou Hamer Complex and Museum
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