Word: hamer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organizer--long-time Southern civil rights leader Fanny Lou Hamer--contacted a group of teaching fellows here last week and said that her Freedom Farms co-op needed $1300 to retain its option on the land in Sunflower County, Miss...
...civil rights workers, must make the decisions for the movement. But SNCC is distrustful of the established Negro leadership--the ministers, school principals and professionals--and when SNCC moves into a new area, it seeks to discover and develop grass-roots leaders who will challenge the conservatives. Fannie Lou Hamer, for example, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, used to be a sharecropper...
...subject to agreement by the Vatican. But of that there seemed little doubt, since the World Council proposal had been approved in principle by the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity during six months of secret discussion last year. Said French Dominican Theologian Jérome Hamer, one of Rome's official observers at Enugu: "Beyond all doubt, this is a step forward...
Moses also discussed the challenge which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party plans to bring in January against the seating of three Mississippi congressmen in the House of Representatives. The challenge is being brought in the names of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, Mrs. Victoria Gray, and Mrs. Annie Devine, three Negro Mississippians who ran against the white Congressmen in "Freedom Elections," conducted in November by the Freedom Party...
This is the first time the MFDP has appealed its case outside Mississippi. Now Rauh brings the challenge before a nation-wide television audience. He relies primarily on Henry and Mrs. Fanny Lou Hamer's tales of persecution to show that the MFDP is the "loyal, legal, and long-suffering party from Mississippi." To charges that the Party has no legal basis, Rauh replies: "The Negro has been kept out of the Mississippi Democratic Party by terror. I want the nation to know this terror...