@article{813121, note = {Date range of documents: 1966-1978.}, author = {Hamer, Fannie Lou.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/813121}, title = {Fannie Lou Hamer : papers of a civil rights activitist, political activist, and woman.}, publisher = {Gale, a part of Cengage Learning,}, abstract = {"Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity. Her plain-spoken manner and fervent belief in the Biblical righteousness of her cause gained her a reputation as an electrifying speaker and constant activist of civil rights."}, recid = {813121}, pages = {1 online resource.}, address = {Farmington Hills, Mich. :}, year = {2012}, }