Contains more than three thousand pieces of correspondence plus financial records, programs, photographs, newspaper articles, invitations, and other printed items by or about Fannie Lou Hamer--all digitized.
Outstanding digital archives. Features high quality audio of Fannie Lou Hamer interviews and speeches, transcripts in her handwriting and other digital object. The information on the pages in well written and reliable. Highly recommended.
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.
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).
The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century includes primary source material from federal agencies, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries relating to the Civil Rights movement in the latter half of the twentieth century.
The NAACP Papers collections contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country.
Image from Mississippi Digital Library. Student voice, Vol. 5 no. 13; 2 June 1964.
The Chicago Defender has been a leading voice of the black community well beyond Chicago. This database offers downloadable PDFs from each issue in published for the entire run of the newspaper, from 1910 to 1975.
