Artwork Page for Fanny Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain

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Series Title: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Fanny Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain

1963, printed 2015

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)
Culture
Medium
gelatin silver print (printed 2015)
Measurements
Image: 32.9 x 22.5 cm (12 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.9 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Patricia Cohen and Edward Sutton 2017.299
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Description

Voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer came to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to participate in a voter registration drive. On January 22, 1964, hundreds of people braved a bone-chilling rain to picket the courthouse in a town where not one black person was registered to vote. The registrar, forced by a court injunction against voting discrimination, allowed four people in per hour to fill out registration applications.

Fanny Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain

1963, printed 2015

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)

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