Fannie Lou Hamer And Ella Baker Didn’t Take a Seat at the …
2022年3月4日 · In 1964, North Carolina’s Ella Baker and Mississippi’s Fannie Lou Hamer helped found an independent, Black-led party, opening the door of democracy wider for everyone.
While Unsung in '63, Women Weren't Just 'Background Singers' - NPR
2013年8月24日 · Mrs. Hamer and two other African-American women were seated on the floor of the House while the challenge was being considered.
50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, Remembering the Women Who Steered …
2018年4月2日 · Women like Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, and Fannie Lou Hamer, who came to prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, appear in history books...
Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer exemplified SNCC's democratic …
Bond explains how Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer epitomized SNCC's democratic mission. Baker's consensus-making and Hamer's undereducated background demonstrated that everyone could participate in the civil rights movement on an equal basis.
Fannie Lou Hamer - National Women's History Museum
Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the 20th and last child of sharecroppers Lou Ella and James Townsend. She grew up in poverty, and at age six Hamer joined her family picking cotton. By age 12, she left school to work.
Remembering the Black female leaders of the civil rights movement
2021年3月24日 · According to Barbara Ransby’s magisterial biography, “Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement,” Baker approached the world this way because of her Christian formation, and in particular her...
Life Story: Ella Baker - Women & the American Story
Ella was also there when Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists spoke out about racial inequality in the political system. By 1965, tensions in the civil rights movement were growing. SNCC members were exasperated that their nonviolent tactics were met with violence from white people and got little attention from policy makers.
Interview with Ella Baker (Solidarity Day, 1968) - abolition notes
This transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview conducted by John H. Britton, staff associate, Civil Rights Documentation Project, with Miss Ella Baker in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1968. [During the Poor Peoples Campaign "Solidarity Day" mass rally.]
Fannie Lou Hamer - Wikipedia
Fannie Lou Hamer (/ ˈheɪmər /; née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Ella Baker - Wikipedia
Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades.