Related Historical Markers

By Dr. C. Sade Turnipseed

Fannie Lou Hamer Marker

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Mississippi, Sunflower County, Indianola — 1965 — Fannie Lou Hamer — American Voting Rights Movement —

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

2 ► Mississippi, Sunflower County, Ruleville — 14 — Fannie Lou Hamer — Mississippi Freedom Trail —

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

3 ► Mississippi, Sunflower County, Ruleville — Fannie Lou Hamer — Voting and Civil Rights Pioneer —

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

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