Fanie Lou Hammer

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou was an African American woman born on 1917 to a sharecropper. Fannie was one of twenty children who lived in a little shack with no electricity or running water, in Ruleville Mississippi. This city, heart of the Mississippi delta, was home to lush river vallies. Her and the rest of her family belonged to a plantation owner who produced a lot of cotton. She worked for twelve to fourteen hours a day just picking cotton. Fannie's mother's name was Mrs. Ella Townsend; her father's was Mr. Jim Townse...