Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air.

The Fannie Lou Hamer driving tour has been revamped. Now, Jacksonians and visitors can follow Fannie Lou Hamer's civil rights journey through new videos with her own voice, archival material and ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi ...

A sharecropper-turned-activist confronted a national audience with the truth Mississippi tried to bury. Fannie Lou Hamer’s journey began far from the halls of political power, rooted instead in the ...

Visit Atlantic City has funded a new video spotlighting civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s powerful connection to the city. Part of the Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour, the video will ...