On Second Street at Court Avenue on Second Street.
On the steps of the Sunflower County Courthouse, Fannie Lou Hamer, a former cotton picker, sharecropper, and voting and civil rights activist stood in protest of voter suppression in the state of Mississippi throughout the United States.
On . . . — — Map (db m157674) HM
On Byron Street east of Bishop Smith Carter Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
In 1962 at age 44, Hamer tried to register to
vote; the next day she was fired from her job on
the plantation east of here. She became a civil
rights activist, opening her Ruleville home to
Freedom Summer workers and other activists.
She earned . . . — — Map (db m174198) HM
On Byron Street east of Bishop Smith Carter Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
1962 Joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC). And became a field secretary.
1963 Severely beaten while in Winona, Mississippi
when she and other civil rights workers were
returning from a SCLC citizenship . . . — — Map (db m174449) HM
