The 1960s Most Authentic Civil Rights Leader

[@pettylevelexpert984]

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer is SO underrated. I have so much love and respect for this woman!

[@hollyhughes5804]

AMEN She DESERVES EVERY Bit of Respect How BRAVE She was to speak out about the HORRORS of this

[@danyalebell3178]

You are so right sister,compared to these so called black leaders of today.She was bold and outspoken. Michael Bell

[@williehamer3163]

My name is Willie James hamer born in Memphis TN I was name after this beautiful and powerful woman . My thoughts are same .I didn't understand why speak the way I do . I have the same DNA. In me.

[@bobmcgahey1280]

oh she is not underrated and you know she would not care how she was rated-- I know- I knew her

[@janicefranklin2115]

I wish Mrs. Fanny was around right now. We truly need more like this outstanding woman.

[@bobmcgahey1280]

we called her Mrs Hamer no one save very close friends would have presumed to call her anything else

[@jillneeld8714]

My mother, Barbara Covington, grew up during the depression in rural Canada. She became a minister in the United Church of Canada and then a noted civil rights activist in the United States. She and Fanny Lou Hammer were close friend in the struggle for fair housing and voting rights.

[@clarkdonaldson6642]

Late Great Fannie Lou Hamer. Amazing Woman!

[@frankieclayton9303]

A powerful testimony of this woman 🙏❣️

[@sniperjay0916]

Minister Malcolm Shabazz loved this woman...never scared!

[@Mureen2024]

I have a lot of respect for Fannie Lou H.

[@rossmorebaz]

She was an amazing and remarkable woman .. what's surprising is that she is still relatively unknown by most Americans... she was one of the key women in the civil rights struggle ..God Bless her soul because she suffered such a lot of hardship and brutal beatings at the hands of the police .. she died of cancer in 1977 .. But she tried to make this world a better place .. she fought for the right to vote , social justice and that the truth of oppression , racism , and inequality be exposed...

[@frankieclayton9303]

Keep showing her powerful testimony in what happened then and happening now in 2020

[@cynthiaperry8377]

It's just best to be honest and be truthful. Superb just b Mrs. Hamer♥️!!

[@justbeingveetv3423]

I must tell her story! 😥She's amazing!

[@melissabruhn1429]

Fannie Lou Hamer is still the best of us. ✨

[@My2CentsYall]

2022 and the same shit going on. We spent 2 trillion dollar on the war in Afghanistan and we have people living on the dam street. The money get spent on military contractors. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States. That is a big number, yes, but let’s put it into perspective: Americans spend $19 billion a year on unplugged appliances. Americans spend more than $35 billion a year on gym memberships. The US government spent around $718 billion on its military in 2019 alone. You need to understand if you live in impoverished conditions the less likely you are to vote! People in these conditions believe their vote does not matter; it lead to criminal conviction and they lose their right to vote; or bogged down at work you can work 2 jobs and it not be enough for rent.

[@justmyopinion9883]

Those poor Black people were practically in slavery. So sad. Slavery didn't end in 1865; not in the Deep South. P.S. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer is one of my heroes.

[@timbailey2055]

I need some help saying a big pay back is coming. In other words what goes around comes right back around

[@lmjames33]

It's happening now!

[@mortensenegbert6619]

Fascinating bit of history. I never knew Ms. Hamer had such a direct personal connection to Senator Eastland. I wonder if Eastland ever thought about how much courage it took for her to speak out as she did. Any idea what year was this from?

[@lynetteroberts977]

We Need to Learn! It's the Same in 2024 For Everyone in the USA🙃🙃🙃Not Just Blacks😎

[@chloeratchford4854]

Fannie Lou Hamer was such an AMAZING BRAVE UNDERRATED HERO!💫 The old gentleman said, went and fought in Vietnam. Then come back and don't have a decent bed to lay in or job. That tells you what white people think of us.

[@gerardparker4220]

He had an actual plantation in the 60s..

[@ilae.williams7675]

BOOM💣💣💣💣💣💥💥💥💥💥There it is...These sisters telling it like it is,💣💣💣💣💣💣💥

[@alesiayw]

❤️

[@knatural7754]

I wasn’t born my mom was like a kid climbing coconut trees in puertorico my father was a kid playing with the other children in usa

[@oliverlacey3765]

They need to show this too all the other ethnic groups in America who claimed they experienced racism and discrimination

[@kevinmahoney1995]

Senator Eastland was one of only 7 Democrats who voted 'no' on Medicare.

[@dchiffy]

She was an uncanny Hamer. RIP

[@dennisleporte2327]

Yet over 60 yrs later.....

[@michaeljacksonshadow]

✊🏿

[@nikkibass2280]

REPARATIONS are here❤️💪❤️💪🙏😘

[@jessestewart169]

Powerfil.