Audio of Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Audio recording of Democratic National Convention, August 22, 1964, Credentials Committee - created at animoto.com
Her testimony was so powerful that Lyndon Baines Johnson called an impromptu press conference to preempt her. Although this includes photos, this is best experienced aurally.
Ms Hamer needs a statue and a national holiday. Petition is coming. Get your pens ready to work.
C Wade I was thinking the same thing.
+C Wade there is a statue and she would not have wanted a holiday. She was far too modest a woman. God keep her.
robert alpert Thanks for the info. I think I saw the statue in a pic somewhere. Not sure where it's located though. She was amazing!
I'm ready to sign and assist with the petition
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I thank God for my ancestors!
They paved the way for us
If we today could be as brave, determined and on one accord as our ancestors....oh what a people what a more mighty people we could be
@able street and thru your ignorance and stupidity have you condemned yourself
Amen
Happy 100th Birthday Ms. Hamer!
This is why they don’t teach black history ... they did is so dirty !
Blessed , Black, and highly favored !
.And the history they do teach is watered down.
🗣️ PREACH 🙌🏽 🙌🏽
@VanteMack , excellent point!
maybe they should
Black children wasn't to know anything about their history 1960's or history in general!" WoW!"
She took the blows for us. We won’t forget what this American did for us. Not now, now ever
Never!! GOD is Judging this American!! Now!!
That was 😷 sick that was a crime whipping her.
Right and BM were the ones who were used to beat her. And we wonder why we arent treated with respect by BM today. Bm hate us... if the WM tell them to kill us the BM will.
@@stay_low_key child please! them men were weak as hell...
@@stay_low_key Please understand the BM were under duress.
I'm 33 and I've never heard of this woman. Thanks for putting her in my life. Her story needs to be told and heard.
Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, Ella Baker...some women of the Civil Rights movement aling with many ithers.
@@culasings5806 I've been going crazy learning about Fannie. My daughters' keep telling me. Daddy u don't know that lady. Well everyone in this house is about know her. I'll look the other ladies up as well. Thanks.
I’m 67, from the south, and I never heard of this. I would have been 9 years old when this happened.
@@truthseeker9688 My wife and I just welcomed 2 twins girls today. I'm on cloud 9 right now. I'll be sure to give all my the entire history of our people.
504 Bull, congratulations!!! May your family be blessed.
I'm from Mississippi and the spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer lives in my blood -- that's why I get up and vote every election day. She paid a heavy price for me and I don't take it for granted!!
ATT NorthTexas I think I may vote after this comment
@@TeamProU RIP MRS Hamer 💔 your fight was not in vain, may it rain a thousand thank 🙏 on your descendent you took the beating for all black people and all decent human beings. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Voting is just a symbol the election is already decided.
It was probably because they could not tax us the way they wanted to if we could not vote.
Repeal the electoral college.
My heart hurts for what this woman endured. The strength she had not only to survive but to speak about what happened to her is simply powerful. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you for not turning a blind eye to her plight.
Its good to know some white people care
Simply one of many..No isolated incident, this is standard fare!
Blacks historically although brave, in the stance for humanity regular suffered this abuse from the hands of oppressors. And it is definitely upsetting to hear about this brutality from supposedly people. And it is disheartening today for individuals to blame the victims. The present day accusers pretend not to see the continual disenfranchise heaped upon minorities.
I agree so much with Calvin Royal below. Julia Janzen, please understand that ALL of our ancestors went through similar things. My grandfather in Georgia was threatened to be killed if he voted. So many others endured similar. To be black in the USA means to endure suffrage on some level.
She went to have surgery to remove a tumor.
This white Dr. decided to give her a hysterectomy too,without her consent.
The dr. Felt no more black babies should be produced..
I can’t even fathom the hell these african Americans faced every freakin day..
The disregard and disrespect for black womans bodies was in humane..
It's gets MUCH worse...If you go back further!
OMG
Read about "eugenics" in NC....
There’s a documentary on RUclips about her incident and other African American women that were used as guinea pigs by doctors.
Be careful of your doctor they never cared for us.
This is why I'm so PROUD of my BROWN COCO SKIN and Curly Kinky Hair my soft very full ALL NATURAL LIPS and every single element GOD designed to make every inch to make me who I am and with pride and admiration I must say "GOD YOU DID THAT" I Love being BLACK and wouldn't change it for all the money or riches in this entire universe!!! Black people LOVE the skin you're in and mostly Be Proud that GOD decided to wrap your soul spirit and body in one of the most uniquely designs only HE could make in HIS heavenly laboratory "MELANIN" you have something that out of almost every organ that can be replaced, transplanted, or just removed the melanin in your skin can't be taken from you love it and cherish it because it's PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anthony McRae 🥰. ABSOLUTELY!!!
I love being black🥰🥰🥰
@Anthony McCrae...yessir...straight up facts and pride brother!
@@selwynlawson7596 We come from a Royal Priesthood WE ARE KING'S AND QUEEN'S they know it always knew it there is only one race OUR RACE others were still swinging from trees and eating raw flesh until WE TAUGHT THEM HOW TOO PROPERLY PREPARE FOOD WITH FLAVOR that's why they threw our people a pigs ass AND WHAT WE DO MAKE IT A DELICACY gave us scraps of linens and what we do MAKE FASHIONS FIT FOR A KINGDOM WE BAD AND THEY KNOW WE ARE WE CAN DIG OUT THE EARTH TO CREATE CITIES FROM THE GROUND MAKE PLANES FASTER THEN SOUND HEAL BODIES FROM A LEAF TAKE A DRUM AND CREATE A MUSICAL MASTERPIECE ALL THIS WE HAVE DONE FROM OUR DARK BROWN HANDS ALL THIS GOD ORDAINED THE DAY HE WRAPPED US IN THIS BROWN BEAUTIFUL SKIN AND CALLED US A BLACK MAN!!!!!!!!
'Amen'
i cant recall ever hearing about her or this testimony thats is a tragedy all on its own
Owen Micheals me either, she was suppressed by the party she wanted to join, they let them in for appearance and told them how it be, she fought them, told them to forget it, but in the end the Dems convinced them with lies. She was one hellva woman.
Owen Micheals
Tragedy is your ignorant lack of u.s.a. history
@@neldadon
With all the technology we have we still don't know history but you should have known about Fannie Lou Hamer. She was a strong woman despite living in such times.We are lucky these speeches exist.
Go outside the box and read.There's a lot out there!!!
Zork Work
Lmfao
It's sad that these recording exist now
I'm born a raise in kingz county Brooklyn nyc
From Caribbean Dominican parents
83 this is real American history ..the kind
Of history class's don't teach in u.s.a.
@@neldadon I'm white Nel from NY too.. My girlfriends drove down to Mississippi in the early 70's to help Fannie Lou and give her 2 box fans for her house. They had to live "underground" at Fannie's for fear of being hurt by the locals. Times have changed a lot but sadly I feel racism and bigotry will never fully go away. Fannie Lou Hamer was quite a woman.
As a black woman from MS, we owe sooo so much to the sacrifice and resolve of those who came before us, not the least of which is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. Thank you thank you thank you
i damn near cried when i heard this
Owen Micheals I just did in 2020.
Me too. :(
A brave and heroic woman who chose to face certain physical harm and possible death, to fight for basic human rights and dignity. She faced unbelievable horrors and still chose to stand up and speak up. Unimaginable and valiant courage. God bless you Fannie Lou Hamer
AMEN LORD AMEN I ECHO YOUR SENTIMENTS!!!!!!!
Very brave woman!!
Imagine if Fannie Lou Hamer had been one of the speakers at the March on Washington. Her address might have been as famous as the speech by Dr. King---if not MORE famous.
+SagesseNoir I'm an older white woman and was amazed at discovering this wonderful woman. I have long thought she BELONGED at that march on the stage... but unfortunately, sexism lived in the civil rights movement just as it lived in our society at large.... but if ever there was a feminist-humanist it was Fannie Lou Hamer. She deserves recognition equally, at least, with Martin Luther King. As far as I'm concerned, she is the mother of the Civil Rights Movement and the best role model I've ever seen.
patricia x There are now a few books out regarding the role of women leadership in the movement. Some regard Rosa Parks as the "mother" of the civil rights movement. And there were other women before Ms. Parks to defied bus segregation and were arrested. But Rosa Parks was the one who was deemed by Montgomery's upper middle class black leadership "respectable" enough to be the public symbolic face of the movement.
@@patriciax3677 I Knew Mrs Hamer and she had little use for the women's movement though I am sure history will fashion it that way but she hated abortion contraception all of the idols of the womans movement when Jo-Etha Collier was shot she asked if I could raise money from the women's movement because the family was too poor to pay for a funeral you know how much the women contrbuted ? zero!!!!! believ what you like but that is the truth
415 Oak Street Ruleville Mississippi is where my grandmother’s [Clytee Hawthorne] house sits. For my ancestors who sat/walked and talked with Fannie Lou Hamer in Sunflower County. May you all Rest In Peace ☮️. Sister Fannie Lou Hamer - Rest sister - Rest. [June 5, 2020]
I had never heard a first hand account of the abuses on African Americans in the South. It is a disgrace, that's why I think that America was never great. Thanks for posting this important testimony. She was a brave, strong, courageous woman that needs to be honoured.
Wow. When you here it . It becomes personal. She lived it. What a brave lady. A true American hero.
Thanks so much for posting this. It is without doubt one of the most important testimonies in American history. Mrs. Hamer doesn't get her due - she is one of the greatest, bravest, and most unprecedented figures in our history. I sought out the speech because I'm reading "This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" by Kay Mills. As opposed to the Hollyweird version of life in Jim Crow South we get in "Mississippi Burning", the book depicts the real story of the terrorism under which Black folks lived at the time, and the U.S. government's complicity, or at least passivity, in the face of local abuses. Here's a section of the book dealing with the aftermath of the notorious jailing and vicious beating Mrs. Hamer suffered at the hands of local police because she had attended the Highlander school for organizers: " ... [about a year after the beating FB.] agents visited her at home in Ruleville. [The agent reported:] "During this interview she was extremely hostile in her manner, showed little respect for the FBI, and stated the FBI "is a rotten bunch." "She advised she has no trust for the FBI and stated that numerous instances of violations of Negro Civil Rights have been furnished to the FBI and nothing has ever come of these complaints ... Her opinion of the FBI could not be changed."
One important caveat: THE VIDEO IS DISTRACTING, even annoying. My advice: reduce the screen, boost the volume, and revel in one of the greatest and most important speeches in U.S. history. They'll never be another voice quite like hers ...
it was my honor to have met her several times
sonja westbrooks thank you.
Thanks for sharing. Light shines in darkness. Light prevails
Brought to tears....thank you for posting. In my world this is what goes viral and gives my people power. We must NEVER forget
Ms Hamers speech is so relevant today in 2019. A women of great courage 💕
Our people will be delivered in the end ✊🏾 APTTMHY
@Stacy Tucker Amen. Our men are on drugs, in jail, or billionaires that are doing nothing for the community. God have mercy on them when they stand before Him
What an inspiration, especially in the current state of affairs in our nation today. Thank you, Ms. Hamer for your sacrifice.
Salute to Miss Fannie Lou Hamer and the ancestors we stand on your shoulders.
Amen!!
Actually, we're standing on their shoulders!
I have nothing but the greatest appreciation, admiration , and respect for this woman and others of her generation. They suffered humiliation, brutality, indignation and torture so that I and others of my ethnic background could experience a better life free from prejudice and inopportunity. They suffered with grace, dignity, and resilience despite the hardships. We owe them a great debt, yet I feel as though today's African-American youth take everything for granted and have become little more than an "entitlement" generation. I hope the struggles of our grandparents, and other relatives of that generation were not made in vain.
I agree...Young african americans in this generation take it all for granted ...im only 15 and i wonder what has happened with the youth ..boys walking around acting like thugs and acting out and girls showing off all of their skin to get noticed...acting illiterate and unintellectual ...dumbing themselves down for the ones around them..making themselves and everyone else look back..shaming the ones that lost their lives fighting for equality for the many minority races ...The youth dont understand how powerful the fight was..instead they are worried about the next girl they are going to have sex with, or better yet the next pair of jordans they are going to get their mom to buy for them..and girls worried about the next boy that she can get her hands on and wondering why she is being done wrong..i understand why many people look at african americans and wonder why they are the way they are and how they think all of them are just hooligans and criminals up to no good and will not amount to anything in life... As a 15 year old African American ...its hard to see so much hard work go to waste by a race that once fought ao hard to be equal
Maniya Butler It is so refreshing to read your comment, Maniya. All is not lost, but we need many more young people like you to effect a course correction for our African-American youth. Stay on the straight and narrow and you will do us all proud. God bless you.
+livingfree Not everyone in Fannie Lou Hamer's generation was like Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer was the exception in her generation much the same as enlightened, progressive African Americans may be the exception in our generation.
She is my shero her voice gives me chills
We need more women like you...
I read most of the comments here about her bravery, its so much more than that. This was another turning point in history...enough was enough she was mad as hell and refused to stay quiet. They may have tortured her body but they could never take her soul. She made her mind up that day she was no longer staying silent...she was a woman on mission Come hell or high water.
Thank you sister for posting this,I have so much respect for this great woman.
They don’t teach this history in History class.
They should.
They can't handle it.
These hero’s like Ms. Hamer Medgar Evers, Stockely Carmichael and etc. words will NEVER die. Ironically the racists who strived to silence them are forgotten fools.
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This the history they don’t want to get out 💯Sisters take notes we need our sisters strong 💪🏿
I have voted for 47 years BECAUSE of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. I will always vote because of her!!!
Should there be any question as to why a person should vote? The pain, the suffering, the beatings Fannie Lou and others took so we could walk freely to the poll center and cast a damn vote.....and yet some just won't do it. We all do well to remember what these great individuals did for us. The LEAST we can do is get off our asses and go vote.
Just hearing this an learning about her, one of the greatest testimony or speeches I've heard. Brave woman.
Executnr that was exactly what i thought. I literally got goose bumps listen to her, that was extremely powerful. I understand Johnson tried to block her national appearance by going on TV at the exact same time, and of course the networks broke away from her speech to him, he regretted it because it got out what he tried doing. Remember millions at that time didnt have tvs still. Johnson was a disgrace, he didnt want to let people hear her because she had a powerful voice and story.
Aeleks Johnson she deserves her place in history but few Have heard of her she was beyond brave she truly was someone who the leaders of the Democratic Party were afraid of. Amazing woman who made me realize how the Democrats were racist and held black folks down
I'm playing this for my students.
I hear you Mrs Hamer, I acknowledge your calling!!
That was powerful she needs to recognized for her testimony
Every American should listen to this. Thank you for sharing this, Ms. Cook.
something we should not forget,
listening to this brought tears to my eyes not because of hurt but because of pride this woman was so strong and powerful and so many others like her with everything they did to brake her she wouldn't brake and that makes me proud
Well said. I'm proud too
This is why they don’t teach black history ... they did is so dirty !
Blessed , Black, and highly favored !
They don't! But I do! My children know her by name. My children know the things they NEVER taught us in school. I had to teach my kids about Black History. Now they use there voices to speak for what is right...and they are registered voters. It breaks my heart to hear this speech but I listen and I feel each blow. Why can't others?
This makes me sick to my stomach. How can people do things like this to another human being? Oh to be so brave.
IF you read the writing of the segregationist at the time,they saw black people as sub-human at the time.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to fix that.
Powerful!!!! Anytime a young Black person doesn't wanna vote tell them to listen to this speech!
or "any" person too. peace
You can vote, but this land has been controlled for over 1,000 years by the oppresser and the aint never giving up no power for us or giving up they seat, 1000 years in power we all vote every single one of us and i guarantee it will be no change, you thing they gonna givr up living in Heaven on earth giving up a tradition they have had for over 1,000 years? It will never happen Capan
Nickelwindow53 fuck voting that has never help us as a people we had a black president who had a gay agenda so miss me with that voting shit the answer is to stop they money like the bus boycott with Rosa parks now that’s the answer hit them in they pockets better wake up
Voting my ass! We still face a ton of the same issues now as we did then. They just spray perfume over the shit now.....
@@tanysozi we don't go to the ballot to exercise our rights, we go to the ballot for benefits tangibles for our community it's a new day.
I'm grateful that we can still the powerful testimony of this American hero.
me too! [?]
she's not amerikkkan, she's African.
the mighty shoulders we stand on!
the most powerful testimlony Ive ever heard
I curse the day that I'd ever partaken in the disrespect of a black woman or any other woman, especially more so a black woman
knowing how much my ancestors endure and took on in a lifetime. Be it I was not raised by my father or grandfather or any strong black men but listened to rap music which influenced me and my young ignorance earlier on. Oh how I wish I could turn back the hands of time to say that I APOLOGISE to all I have hurt in some way! Hearing this and seeing she was physically abused at the hands of not 1 but 2 black men via a white man tears my stomach apart. This video alone has changed my views tremendously I pray for the better and I ask Jesus to have mercy upon ME!
We suffer for 400 years. MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of us. NO MORE!
This is so powerful. I can vote because of Fannie Lou Hamer
She is my HERO!!! Why hasn't there been a movie made about this women? Why aren't our children being taught about her...It seems as if our only recognition goes to MLK. Fannie Lou Hamer was on the front lines at time when you could lose your life in a second for being so out spoken...and add to that being a black women and taking a stand. I am just in awe of her.
Rest in Power Queen thanks for the Good Fight .Now it's our turn calling on the power of our ancestors.
Powerful. This is a part of our history that we must never forget.
Wow! The righteous are as bold as lions and the wicked flee when no one is chasing them. And still even after 50 years they are fleeing because you can't hear every word that the courageous Ms. Fannie spoke. May the Most High Almighty continue bless her family and her soul. Peace Royal Family. 🙏🏼💖💯
To be treated so inhumanely as though we are nothing, so sad. To listen to the description of how she was beat by prison inmates until they were too tired to continue, how one would be ordered to sit on her feet, while the other beat her. How sad to treat a human in such a way. (As I type this, I am crying because it hurts so much) To think that she just wanted to be a citizen, but a citizen for what? If she knew like I know now, she wouldn't have wasted her time, because this country has never been for us.
God this evil still exists today.
perpetual hate
please know, what’s happening and taking place from the virus 🦠 to the protests. our creator had plans and hands on they are now shining in clear view.
They are demonic
The fact that she could articulate her story and speak her
truth in front of all those people must have been one of the hardest things...just not as hard as being silence by those in power! Unfortunately there were stories than this but if you had the ability to voice in front of others they did not know!so for those who suffered in silence and could not speak we may not know you by name.. but know that God did!
That’s mighty powerful.
I’m glad things have improved since then.
Barely
This is the AMERICAN HISTORY THAT should be taught in schools.
Praise God for this woman’s courage!!!
I admire her so much. I never knew of her. Im almost 30 years old. I can't stop watching videos on her.
LUV-ME-SOME-FANNIE LOU HAMMER. Grew up with her as one of my Negro heros and still love her today even more. Long live Fannie Lou!!!!
--Margaret Opine
My mom grew up in Memphis Tennessee in the 40s. Her family owned a farm but after her mom passed they moved up north to find better jobs etc. my mom just passed away this February 2020 @ 73 years old. That lady has seen a lot. as well as her 6 siblings, she was the youngest. RIP Mommy 😇
Great woman!!!
This was such a strong woman. A true American.
She sounds like a female Martin Luther King .
Yesss!
same thing is still happening to this day, and the government will not do anything about it. but one one will stand up, sad.
EXACTLY
My God what a strong and powerful woman.God Bless her.Absolute 100% RESPECT.
Powerful Testimony
This was only 60 years ago.
Think about that.
Are we first class citizens yet?
No. Look what they did to Mr George Floyd. We should never stop protesting. Thank you Mrs Fannie Lou. I am 63 , went to all black school until 5th grade, they close our school had to go only white school in springhill Tennessee, my parents were so afraid, but by God's grace and mercy I graduated, went to college, and ready to retire. I Thank God for giving us people like Mrs Fannie, Dr King and Malcolm X. I tell my sons never stop protesting. Peace and love to my people
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@@lillanthompson9086 blessing
May God bless all of her descendants.
Ms. Hamer got right personal I can listen to more of her testimony.
You have done a great service by posting this. Every other video cuts off and interrupts her testimony. Thank you.
Thank God for people like her! It's our turn now to preserve and enlarge the progress they made for us. We HAVE TO
She got to tell her story. How many thousands, millions of others didn't? That is what really shocks and grieves me. Here we are 56 years later. Her words and her story are still alive and therefore, in a way Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer is still alive. May she rest in peace in the bosom of Abraham. Free at last.
Rip Ms Fannie Lou Hamer❤️
Pamela Cook! Thank you for posting this!
God Bless You. Thank you for speaking out!!! Exposing Evil at its best! I'm sorry what happened to you. I appreciate your life!!! It's not in vain!!! Love you ❤
Good morning! Sorry to hear our your lost. Yes, I'm tired of the madness also. I wish I knew the answer. I don't understand why one race of people feel that they are superior to another. Heaven help us all. Keep in touch.
People are afraid of AA PPL because AA PPL are the most resiliently Strong survivors who are always copied. AA PPL helped build America along with every nationality that came here. However, they hate or disregard AA PPL because the shame of historical slavery.
Courage, faith, strength. God bless you, Mrs Hamer. Thank you, thank you.
All public high school kids need to hear and understand this.
I wish I had 1/100th the strength and courage of Ms. Hamer; bless her, her power is as potent now as ever before.
I love this strong, smart woman!
Thank You For Your Testimony #AdvancingTheDream HISTORY ~
Ms. Pamela Cook, thank you for this.
This made me cry so hard and our young of today need to hear this.
A powerful speech from a strong woman. What she endured was not right by anyone for anytime.
God rest Fannie Lou Hamer’s soul! This is the reason why I vote. Too many men and women were tortured and even killed so that we all can be free citizens able to vote!
I admire, respect and love her for her bravery and strength❤️😢
ain't shit changed Fannie, ain't shit changed at all..
So many heroes of that day that are less known. Audio like this is historical treasure that should be more studies and meditated on.
These are the things they want is to forget.....never forget
Indianola. I lived there as a child. Hoover Street. Later street was named Broadmore Dr.
I left this beautiful little town when I was ten years old. My childhood life changed so much after we moved away.
Thank you for posting this... many blessings💞
Thank you for posting this
Thank you
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, LIVES. My grandparents were from Mississippi and migrated north to CT. So may stories never told, went with them to their resting places, I can only imagine...
Wow. Incredible.
Thank you for this complete recording.
When she said they have to "sleep with telephone off the hook" basically listening to each other's houses in case one is attacked.... crazy.
Love this black woman, she makes me so proud.
I appreciate this audio. On the PBS series "American Experience", the film talks about how LBJ decided to hold a press conference. The television stations cut into Mrs. Hamer's testimony to broadcast his egotism. But, dammit, the "American Experience" clip has all these male commentators talking over the short clip! Here, we can all listen to the entirety of her remarks. Many, many thanks!