Fannie Lou Hamer: Songs My Mother Taught Me
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1980-01-21
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content: Box 90, Reel 3
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Audio
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content: Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper, determined voter registrant, and field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).  She was an orator, political activist, and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In addition to these contributions, she is noted for her speeches and singing, which influenced many during the Civil Rights Movement. Her strong religious background was often expressed through a sacred hymn before each of her speeches. She opened many gatherings with "This Little Light of Mine," one of her favorite songs.

Linda Reed. "Fannie Lou Hamer" in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, volume A-L. New York: Carlson Publishing Incorporated, 1993.