About Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American activist who worked for voting rights, women’s rights, and civil‑rights causes. She served as vice‑chair of the Freedom Democratic Party and represented it at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer helped organize Mississippi’s Freedom Summer together with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and she co‑founded the National Women’s Political Caucus to support women of all races seeking elected office.
![“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; Ifelt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d38/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_robbed_some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-i_142242.png)
![“All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/321/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_accounts_all-of-this-is-on-account-we-want-to-reg_1675663.png)
