| LC control no. | n 79151531 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hamer, Fannie Lou |
| Variant(s) | Townsend, Fannie Lou Hamer, Fanny Lou |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Sunflower County (Miss.) |
| Birth date | 1917-10-06 |
| Death date | 1977-03-14 |
| Place of birth | Ruleville (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Mound Bayou (Miss.) |
| Affiliation | Delta Ministry Freedom Farms Corp. National Women's Political Caucus |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Her Contested-election case of Fannie Lou Hamer ... 1965. NUCMC data from Amistad Research Center for Hamer, F.L. Papers, 1966-1978 (Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977; b. Montgomery Co., Miss.; 1945 married Perry Hamer; 1919 moved to Sunflower Co., Miss.; civil rights activist; 1963 instrumental in starting Delta Ministry; 1964 member of Miss. Freedom Demo. Party's delegation to Demo. Nat'l. Convention; 1969 fd. and pres. Freedom Farms Corp.; 1971 mem. of policy council of National Women's Political Caucus; 1976 mem. of St. Exec. Comm. of the United Demo. Party of Miss., Dist. II; former sharecropper) Sewell, G.A. Mississippi Black history makers, c1977: page 346 (b. Fannie Lou Townsend, Oct. 6, 1917) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1917; d. 1977) African American women, 1993: pages 220-224 (Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer, born October 6 1917 in Ruleville, Miss., died March 15, 1977; grassroots civil rights organizer and social activists. Lived all her life in Mississippi. Arrested several times for working to register voters.) Find a grave (online), viewed November 24, 2020 ("Fannie Lou Hamer", died March 14, 1977 in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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