Fannie Lou Hamer receives Presidential Medal of Freedom - USA …
2 days ago · Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend on Oct. 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, to sharecropping parents. She was the youngest of 20 children. Hamer began working in the fields when she was ...
Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Fannie Lou Hamer
1 day ago · As Richardson stood by President Biden’s side, the announcer said, “The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most powerful voices of the Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer spent 18 years as a sharecropper in Mississippi before learning that Black citizens had a constitutional right to vote.”
Fannie Lou Hamer To Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
5 days ago · WASHINGTON, D.C. - JANUARY 4, 2025 – In one of his last official acts, President Joseph R. Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.
Fannie Lou Hamer honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
1 day ago · President Joe Biden awarded Mississippian Fannie Lou Hamer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hamer was a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, challenging the exclusion of Black voices in the political system. She also laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Hamer was born in Montgomery County in Central Mississippi, dying in 1977 in Mound Bayou....
President Biden awards Mississippi civil rights icon
4 days ago · Mississippian civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded 19 recipients the prestigious medal at the White House. Hamer is the 11th person from Mississippi to receive the award. The Delta native is known as one of the most important voices in the Civil Rights Movement.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Legacy Honored with Presidential Medal of …
5 days ago · On January 4, 2025, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous honor to civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and the subject of WMM release FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, directed by Joy Davenport and produced by Monica Land ...
Congressman Bennie G. Thompson Commends the President’s …
5 days ago · My life was transformed while working on the Fannie Lou Hamer campaign for Congress. I am deeply influenced by her legacy, and I am honored to witness this recognition. I extend my gratitude to President Biden for acknowledging Hamer’s pivotal role in American history and bestowing upon her this well-deserved honor,” Thompson said.
How Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the DNC 60 years ago | AP News
Aug 22, 2024 · The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She described how she was fired from her plantation job in retaliation for trying to register to vote and brutalized in jail for encouraging other Black people to assert their rights.
60 years after Democrats denied Fannie Lou Hamer a ... - NBC News
Kamala Harris is set to address the convention exactly 60 years after the civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer delivered her powerful convention speech about voting rights and representation.
Fannie Lou Hamer's legacy, 60 years after challenging Democrats …
Aug 21, 2024 · Almost 60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer took the podium at the Democratic National Convention and made a speech that challenged the party for its failure to support Black Americans' right to vote. In 1964, when Atlantic City hosted the DNC convention at Boardwalk Hall, Hamer gave a speech that challenged Mississippi's all-white delegation, which refused to grant her integrated delegation seats ...