Rank Civil Rights organizer / SNCC field secretary / Co-founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Domain Voter registration, sharecropper organizing, prophetic witness from the bottom of the American class structure
Alignment Holy / Grassroots
Power MYTHIC 91
Combat Profile
Prophetic Testimony
Her unflinching witness at the 1964 Democratic Convention exposes the moral bankruptcy of systems, forcing truth into spaces built to deny it.
Voice of the Voiceless
Those who speak from the margins of power gain amplified clarity; her presence sanctifies the testimony of the dispossessed.
Survived a 1963 jailhouse beating in Winona, Mississippi, that left her with permanent kidney damage. Forcibly sterilized without consent in 1961 (a "Mississippi appendectomy"). Died in 1977 of cancer and the cumulative effects of state violence
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” — Fannie Lou Hamer, Democratic National Convention, August 22, 1964
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Kay Mills, *This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer* (1993); Hamer's collected speeches
