Fannie Lou Hamer x Freedom Farm

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FANNIE LOU HAMER (1917-1977)
Fannie Lou Hamer was a grass-roots civil rights activist whose life exemplified resistance in rural Mississippi to oppressive conditions. Born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, to a family of sharecroppers, she was the youngest of Lou Ella and Jim Townsend’s twenty children. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 to work on the E. W. Brandon plantation.
Hamer’s activism began in the 1950s when she attended several annual conferences of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership organized by Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a wealthy businessman and civil rights leader in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
On August 23, 1962, after hearing a sermon by Rev. James Bevel, she volunteered to become an organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to help black Mississippians register to vote.
In 1964, Hamer became one of the statewide leaders in the Freedom Summer Campaign which brought hundreds of volunteers from across the nation to Mississippi to help with voter registration.
Hamer became a national figure during the summer as the co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).
he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1964 and in a special election in 1965. In 1968, she was part of the regular Mississippi delegation to the National Democratic Party Convention where she was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. Hamer was also inducted as an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
On March 14, 1977, Fannie Lou Hamer died of cancer at age 59 in Ruleville, Mississippi. She was buried at Freedom Farms Cooperative, an organization she helped to establish so that poor farmers would have an opportunity to purchase their own land. Her epitaph reads: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
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1969
Fannie Lou Hamer founds Freedom Farm Cooperative
“I know what the pain of hunger is about,” Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer told a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin. “My family was some of the poorest people that was in the state of Mississippi…we were sharecroppers.”
In 1969, Mrs. Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative with a $10,000 donation from Measure for Measure, a charitable organization based in Wisconsin. The former sharecropper purchased 40 acres of prime Delta land. It was her attempt to empower poor Black farmers and sharecroppers, who, for generations, had been at the mercy of the local white landowners. “The time has come now when we are going to have to get what we need ourselves. We may get a little help, here and there, but in the main we’re going to have to do it ourselves,” she explained.
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