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Copyright © 2002 Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, Fannie Lou Hamer
African-American civil rights activist who worked to desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party

This article provides information about when she became a civil rights activist and how her life was before. Amid poverty and racial exploitation, she received only a sixth-grade education. She was married to Perry (“Pap”) Hamer. Her civil rights activism began in August 1962, when she answered a call by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for volunteers to challenge voter registration procedures that excluded African-Americans. Fired from her job for her activism, she became a field secretary for SNCC and a registered voters in 1963.

This site was helpful to me because I found out that she only received a sixth grade education, and from that day on her obligations were to only be a field secretary for SNCC and the voice of women for the right to vote.In conclusion this information is helpful for my NHD project.