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Fannie Lou Hamer s Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer | LaKisha Thigpen
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Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony to Credentials Committee, DNC 1964
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Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony before Congress was so powerful that Lyndon Johnson called an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. His plan backfired. | American Experience | PBS
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Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony before Congress was so powerful that Lyndon Johnson called an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. His plan backfired. | American Experience | PBS
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60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer gave a powerful testimony at the #DNC. Telling the thousands of people in the crowd about how she was targeted, jailed, and beaten in jail for attempting to vote in Mississippi. Today Vice President Kamala Harris will take the stage at the DNC with the same spirit of Hamer 60 years later with the same spirit of freedom and democracy in her heart and on her mind. #FannieLouHamer #DemocraticFreedomParty #FreedomSummer #DNC #DemocraticNationalConvention | BlackPAC
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60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer gave a powerful testimony at the #DNC. Telling the thousands of people in the crowd about how she was targeted, jailed, and beaten in jail for attempting to vote in Mississippi. Today Vice President Kamala Harris will take the stage at the DNC with the same spirit of Hamer 60 years later with the same spirit of freedom and democracy in her heart and on her mind. #FannieLouHamer #DemocraticFreedomParty #FreedomSummer #DNC #DemocraticNationalConvention | BlackPAC
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Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hamer had arrived in Atlantic Ci
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Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hamer had arrived in Atlantic Ci
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On this day in 1977, Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights and voting activist, passed away. After experiencing extreme threats and violence in 1962, simply for trying to register to vote, she became a vocal activist and a leader in the Civil Rights movement. #BecauseOfHerStory Fannie Lou Hamer was known for using her gift of song to soothe and inspire her fellow activists. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has her music here: https://s.si.edu/2VikchA | Smithsonian Channel
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Fifty-six years ago this week, Fannie Lou Hamer participated in a sit-in at the segregated Winona, Miss., bus terminal. After her arrest, Hamer was beaten to near-death at the county jail, never fully recovering from the attack. Watch the full story: https://comca.st/2K975hn | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
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#OTD in 1964, civil rights activist and leader Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer testified at the Democratic National Committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, about the discrimination and violence that Black people faced when attempting to register to vote in the South, particularly in Mississippi. This year (2024) marks 60 years since her nationally televised testimony, which rallied support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and highlighted the need to eliminate voting barriers for Black people. We encourag
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In the summer of 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper from Mississippi, took a bold step that was fraught with danger—she attempted to register to vote. At that time, in the Deep South, this was not just a civic duty but an act of defiance against entrenched racial segregation and oppression. Hamer was traveling back from a voter registration workshop when she was arrested and jailed by the local police. Inside the jail, she was subjected to a horrific beating orchestrated by officers and carr
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On this day in 1977, Fannie Lou Hamer passed away at the age of 59. The activist, organizer, and leader is remembered for her work in the civil and voting rights movements. You can learn more about Hamer in this clip from She the People: Votes for Women. https://bit.ly/31Mo3bR #WomenDoingTheWork | Smithsonian Channel
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🗓#OTD in 1920, the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote, was formally adopted into the Constitution. However, it didn't grant rights to anyone but white women. She the People: Votes for Women airs tonight at 11 PM. | Smithsonian Channel
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When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly how she wanted to spend her life — fighting for every Black American's right to have a voice. Watch season 2 of #SeeHer Story, where we've partnered with Katie Couric and SeeHer to celebrate female trailblazers like Hamer. | People
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In 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sent delegates to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to challenge the dominance of the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party. When Fannie Lou Hamer spoke before the DNC Credentials Committee on August 22nd, her testimony was so powerful that President Johnson called an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfired and her story would be broadcast that night on televisions across America. | American Experience |
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She Didn't Know She Could Vote Until Age 44 The incredible true story of Fannie Lou Hamer - a Mississippi sharecropper who learned she could vote at 44, survived 16 bullets and a brutal jail beating, then gave a speech so powerful it terrified a U.S. President. Her testimony helped pass the Voting Rights Act and changed America forever. #FannieLouHamer #VotingRights #CivilRights #BlackHistory #HiddenHistory #MississippiFreedomDemocraticParty #DemocraticConvention #ViralHistory #AmericanHistory #
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