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- The Hamers couldn’t have biological children due to a hysterectomy performed on Fannie Lou without her consent while undergoing surgery to remove a tumor.
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Feb 4, 2023 · Fannie Lou Hamer's parents tried hard to keep their children in school, but school "lasted only four months out of the year — December through March," and they often didn't have clothes to wear.
- Marina Manoukian
Mar 30, 2023 · MARCH 30, 2023 - RULEVILLE, MS - Funeral services are set for Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, the last living child of civil and voting rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer. Flakes, 56, died Monday, March 27 at her home in Ruleville, MS.
Mar 29, 2023 · Fannie Lou Hamer died in 1977 when Flakes was only 9. Until her death, she raised Flakes in Ruleville, with the child’s older sister Lenora, both of whom she adopted to prevent them from...
Mar 30, 2023 · Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, the last living child of civil and voting rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer, died this week and will be buried April 8 in Ruleville. Flakes, who died March 27 at the age of 56 in her hometown of Ruleville, had been traveling and speaking about her mother’s legacy.
- Mississippi Today
She lost a daughter because no hospital in Mississippi would treat a child of Fannie Lou Hamer. The Ku Klux Klan shot into a friend’s house 16 times while Hamer was staying there. Despite this, Hamer remained.
Mar 10, 2023 · Her parents were sharecroppers and by the age of 6, Fannie Lou was picking cotton on the Marlow plantation in Sunflower County. It was as a child, her daughter said, that Hamer realized injustice...
Fannie Lou Hamer (/ ˈheɪmər /; née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
