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	Fannie Lou Hamer
		Fannie Lou Hamer, known as the lady who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired," was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
		Hamer's courageous act got her thrown off the plantation where she was a sharecropper.
		Hamer spoke in front of the Credentials Committee in a televised proceeding that reached millions of viewers.
	www.ibiblio.org /sncc/hamer.html (304 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		When Fannie Lou Hamer testified before the Credentials Committee of the 1964 Democratic National Convention, she made the nation aware of the exclusion of African Americans from Mississippi's political process.
		Born in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, to cotton sharecroppers Ella and Jim Townsend, Fannie Lou was the youngest of twenty children.
		Hamer suffered repeated threats and a severe beating in the Winona, Mississippi jail, but she was determined to vote.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/hamer_fannie.htm (601 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer
		For more than half of Fannie Lou Hamer's life, she was a rural agricultural worker who saw no end to the cycle of poverty and humiliation that was the plight of most southern African Americans.
		Fannie Lou, born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, was the last of twenty children born to Jim and Ella Townsend.
		Hamer underwent a radical mastectomy in 1976 and died of cancer March 14, 1977, in the Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Hospital.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/fannie_hamer.htm (1126 words)

	Teachers' Domain: Fannie Lou Hamer
		Fannie Lou Hamer was born in rural Mississippi in 1917, the youngest of 20 children and the granddaughter of slaves.
		Hamer petitioned the convention's Credentials Committee for four seats on the convention floor, explaining the scare tactics and violence she and other African Americans experienced in Mississippi and their lack of access to the Democratic Party.
		The next two nights, Hamer and other members of the MFDP borrowed convention passes from sympathetic delegates from other states who were willing to give up their seats, only to be removed from the convention floor by security guards.
	www.teachersdomain.org /9-12/soc/ush/civil/hamer/index.html (607 words)

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		Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most eloquent speakers for the civil rights movement in the south.
		Fannie was born on Oct. 6, 1917 in rural Mississippi to poverty stricken share croppers.
		In 1962, when Hamer was 44 years old, the SNCC held a meeting in her home town and asked for volunteers to register to vote.
	www.geocities.com /delilah_edmonds/hamer.html (724 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer
		Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
		But Hamer was not intimidated; by 1963 she was a field secretary for SNCC and had successfully registered to vote.
		Hamer’s most well known moment of resistance came when the Freedom Democrats challenged the legitimacy of the all-white Regular delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.
	www.csufresno.edu /peacegarden/nominees/hamer.htm (563 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer - Prophet of Freedom
		Fannie Lou Hamer was born the daughter of sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, a poor fl woman in the poorest region of America.
		Hamer took this as a sign to commit herself to full-time work for the freedom movement, serving as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and quickly rising to a position of leadership.
		In the ranks of this extraordinary movement Hamer was a rock who did as much as anyone of her time to redeem the promise of the gospel and the ideals of America.
	www.gratefulness.org /giftpeople/FannieLouHamer.htm (939 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer Loose Change Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Fannie Lou Hamer Loose Change Project was launched on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 by the Africana Studies Program at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
		Hamer, a tireless civil rights worker, is laid to rest in a city owned property that has suffered tremendous neglect since her passing more than twenty-five years ago.
		Hamer's declaration that she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired" that resonated throughout the civil rights community and helped to galvanic a new generation of civil rights activists.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /dept/afras/FannieLouHamerLooseChangeProject.htm (495 words)

	Feminists for Life of America
		Hamer was best known for her activism with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party.
		Hamer - who gave away most of the money she earned from her public speaking - had helped at least one of them to choose life for her baby and to go to college.
		Hamer said it was ridiculous to complain about "lazy" single fl mothers on welfare, then sabotage their efforts to get jobs.
	www.feministsforlife.org /history/herstory/flthamer.htm (736 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer
		After losing her work on the plantation, Hamer was employed as a field secretary of the SNCC and in 1963 she was instrumental in establishing the Delta Ministry, an extensive community development program.
		Hamer became a national figure when at the Democratic Party national convention she made a passionate speech challenging the seating of the regular all-white Mississippi delegation.
		Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mound Bayou, Mississippi on 14th March 1977.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhamer.htm (803 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed a nation's perspective on democracy.
		A sharecropper most of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) became a national symbol of the participation of poor Southern fls in the Civil Rights Movement.
		Born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, she was the youngest of 20 children.
	www.pbs.org /itvs/homecoming/hamerpop.html (282 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer \| Biographies
		Fannie Lou Hamer was a fl orator, educator, and farmer in rural Mississippi.
		Fannie Lou was born on October 6, 1917 in rural Montgomery County Mississippi, the twentieth child of parents Jim and Lou Ella Townsend.
		Hamer stated that the two “at large” seats were “token rights, on the back row, the same as we got in Mississippi” (Williams, p.
	www.fembio.org /english/biography.php/woman/biography/fannie-lou-hamer (1007 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer (Reference) - TeacherVision.com
		Fannie Lou Hamer, was born Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, MS.
		Hamer was the MFDP spokesperson for the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ, where she told the convention committee how African Americans in many states across the country were prevented from voting through illegal tests, taxes, and intimidation.
		Fannie Lou Hamer died on March 14, 1977, at the age of 59.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /african-americans/biography-person/4572.html (333 words)

	African American Registry: Fannie Lou Hamer, an eloquent and blunt civil rights activist . .
		Born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi, she was the last of 20 children in a family of sharecroppers.
		Hamer recounted for the convention the harassment that she and other Blacks experienced when trying to register to vote in Mississippi in a nationally televised interview about her experiences with police brutality.
		Hamer became a national figure in 1964 with a speech to the Democratic National Convention in which she recounted the voter discrimination and violence against Blacks in her home state of Mississippi.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/389/Fannie_Lou_Hamer_an_eloquent_and_blunt_civil_rights_activist__ (386 words)

	Kali Tal - Reviews: Fannie Lou Hamer & Frances Freeborn Pauley
		Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, in the town of Ruleville, Mississippi.
		Hamer was a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, challenging the right of the all-white Democratic Party to represent the African Americans of Mississippi at the Democratic National Convention in 1964.
		As Hamer reacted to the women, she was also responding to the weighty and complex place of race and sex in her personal life history, as well as that for all of fl Mississippi.
	www.freshmonsters.com /kalital/Text/Reviews/Hamer.html (1917 words)

	Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Fannie Lou Hamer Project
		Hamer's appearance at the convention and her testimony before the Credentials Committee catapulted her into national prominence and marked a turning point in her life.
		In undertaking the Fannie Lou Hamer Project, a yearlong series of 2003- 2004 events commemorating her historic role at the 1964 convention and in Atlantic City is being planned.
		The Fannie Lou Hamer Project will occur roughly between October 6, 2003 and October 6, 2004; Hamer (1917-1977) a native of Mississippi was born on October 6th.
	www.crmvet.org /anc/flhproj.htm (728 words)

	Vignette: Fannie Lou Hamer
		Fannie Lou Hamer was a grass-roots civil rights activist whose life exemplified resistance in rural Mississippi.
		Born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, to a family of sharecroppers, she was the youngest of Lou Ella and Jim Townsend’s twenty children.
		Hamer died of cancer at age 59 in Ruleville, Mississippi.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/hamer_fannie_lou.htm (268 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer
		The youngest of 20 children, born to Mississippi sharecropper parents, Fannie Hamer had only 6 years of schooling (a year of schooling being only 4 months for fl students then) and was a polio victim, yet she became one of the most recognized women of the civil rights movement in the early '60's.
		Fannie knew that feeling, and she knew what it was to be treated as less than an animal.
		Hamer then saw the police arrest Ponder, and although her friends shouted to her to get back on the bus, Fannie didn't have time, and she was also arrested.
	www.awomanaweek.com /hamer.html (1600 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer Biography
		Fannie Lou Townsend was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi, in 1917, the youngest of 20 children.
		Her Christian faith was a source of strength for her throughout her life, and she became known in the civil rights movement as a captivating preacher and singer, inspiring others with her moral and physical courage.
		Hamer volunteered, even though she had not previously known that it was a Constitutional Right for fls to vote.
	www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Fannie_Lou_Hamer.html (426 words)

	Hamer, Fannie Lou Townsend: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Fannie Lou Hamer worked for voter registration for African Americans in the U.S. South and helped establish the Mississippi Freedom DEMOCRATIC PARTY (MFDP), which successfully challenged the all-white Democratic party in Mississippi.
		Hamer was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
		Hamer grew up in a tar paper shack and slept on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/hamer-fannie-lou-townsend (186 words)

	Amazon.ca: For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer: Books: Chana Kai Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lee's biography is less committed to exploring Hamer's personal life than to charting her growth as an activist and examining the profound impact of gender, sexuality, violence and poverty on the early civil rights movement.
		By focusing on these issues in Hamer's own life--the repeated rapes her grandmother endured, resulting in 20 illegitimate children, Hamer's own involuntary sterilization and the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of the police--the book highlights the vantage point of African-American women in the fight for basic human rights in the South.
		Hamer, an icon in the movement and a force unto herself, was one of the strongest and most influential voices in the African American struggle for freedom.
	www.amazon.ca /Freedoms-Sake-Life-Fannie-Hamer/dp/0252021517 (765 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer biography
		Fannie believed that Black Americans needed to be educated on various aspects of economics and politics in order to be more successful.
		During the last decade of her life, Fannie was recognized by various national organizations and colleges for her groundbreaking work on behalf of Black Americans.
		Fannie Lou Hamer Oral History - transcript of an interview for the Mississippi Oral History Program of The University of Southern Mississippi, April 14, 1972.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/hame-fan.htm (368 words)

	Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans -- Fannie Lou Hamer
		Hamer invited me to stay at her house where the Coordinator of the Ruleville Freedom School was also staying.
		Hamer stood up and said, "the newspaper said Ann and Carl are communist and were teaching us how to be communist, well I don't know what communism is but I know white folk don't like it so it must be good".
		Hamer said she was sorry she took advantage of Rose's good nature and had eaten up all her peanut butter.
	www.crmvet.org /mem/hamer.htm (1838 words)

	BRC 2002 Events: Fannie Lou Hamer Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Fannie Lou Hamer Lecture on February 12, 2002, was the first event in The Women's Lecture Series on Human Values, a collaboration between the Boston Research Center and the Wellesley Centers for Women.
		Her inaugural lecture was in honor of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), a sharecropper's daughter from a family of 20 children.
		Hamer as a person who energized others with her own positive spirit which was often expressed in song.
	www.brc21.org /ldrshp_hamer.html (948 words)

	Fannie Lou Hamer
		I picked Fannie Lou Hamer to do a report on because she sounded like an interesting person, and she did turn out to be an interesting topic.
		Fannie Lou and the others were arrested and jailed.
		In 1977 Fannie died of heart and kidney failure at the age of 70.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/WH/adn/adn.htm (495 words)

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