Collections of papers, such as those listed here, frequently include items such as personal and professional correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, memos, and diaries.
Consider how the intended audience of an item may change the message. A personal diary may include opinions not shared in a public speech.
Presented in chronological order based on earliest documented activities. Unless otherwise indicated, all microfilm materials are in the lower level of Strozier Library.
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.
Abbreviation: flhpc
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1966–1978
Subjects: African-American Studies, Communication, History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources
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