Fannie Lou Hamer

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Material dating from 1965-1978 related primarily to Hamer's work promoting African American voting rights and candidates as well as her involvement in various organizations.

Call Number: KF4977 W45 H3 1965
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1965).

King was a fellow member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and his papers include a folder specifically on Hamer (Box 1, Folder 8).

In 1964, Hamer challenged Whitten for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Although her name did not appear on the ballot, Hamer and other members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party filed a formal challenge with Congress protesting the seating of the state's five white congressmen on the basis that whites had excluded African Americans from participation in the primary and general elections. Series 13 contains files devoted to the campaign and election contest in Congress.

The files of this publishing archive for a journal of moderate and liberal southern churchmen includes correspondence by and about Hamer as well as drafts of an article written by Hamer (Box 5).

Includes a 1964 campaign poster for Lyndon B. Johnson as well as Hamer and other Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party candidates for Congress (Oversized Box 1).

Call Number: M1670 S55
An LP record album that includes the voice of Hamer. . (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Collection).