Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of ...

On Aug. 22, 1964, 47-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention and told the harrowing account of her attempt two years earlier to ...

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. But his plan backfires.

As strong-willed civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Butler knows she has audiences in the palm of her hand. And rightfully so! Butler easily glides between impassioned ...

The story of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is being told in the opera, “Is This America?” by composer Mary D. Watkins. Performances will take place Sept. 20, 21 & 22 at the Strand ...