TY - GEN N2 - "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." AB - "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." T1 - Fannie Lou Hamer :papers of a civil rights activitist, political activist, and woman. DA - 2012. CY - Farmington Hills, Mich. : AU - Hamer, Fannie Lou. CN - Gale Archives Unbound CN - E185.97.H35 PB - Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, PP - Farmington Hills, Mich. : PY - 2012. N1 - Date range of documents: 1966-1978. N1 - Reproduction of the originals from the Amistad Research Center. N1 - The Fannie Lou Hamer papers contain more than three thousand pieces of correspondence plus financial records, programs, photographs, newspaper articles, invitations, and other printed items. ID - 813121 KW - Civil rights workers KW - Civil rights workers KW - Voter registration KW - Voter registration KW - Civil rights KW - Civil rights KW - Women's rights TI - Fannie Lou Hamer :papers of a civil rights activitist, political activist, and woman. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/gdsc/i.do?id=4ZGY&v=2.1&u=usi&it=aboutCollections&p=GDSC&sw=w UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/gdsc/i.do?id=4ZGY&v=2.1&u=usi&it=aboutCollections&p=GDSC&sw=w ER -