The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 22, 2025
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
(American, 1942-)
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.)
Location: Not on view
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.- Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: Published for the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
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