To commemorate 45 years since the passing of civil and human rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Monica Land, Mrs. Hamer’s great-niece and executive producer of FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMER...
1,181 VistasCivil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer is remembered by those who worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights. An African-American sharecropper from the MISSISSIPPI DELTA, Hamer’s d...
1,283 VistasFor the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights activist. But to Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, Monica Land, and Jimmy Lee Lacey, she was also so much m...
1,281 VistasThe MISSISSIPPI DELTA, also known as the Yazoo–MISSISSIPPI DELTA, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) ...
984 VistasRalph David Abernathy, Sr. (March 11, 1926 -- April 17, 1990), was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christia...
1,721 VistasLaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton has two storylines, both of which show the impoverished life of residents in the American South. The documentary draws the connection—a vicious cycle—between...
1,899 VistasThis is the Full Shocking documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her famil...
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