NHD

Asia Sims
Art History
Ms. Thompson
November 2,2008


Fannie Lou Hamer


There are many people that have a huge impact on history, but the one I chose I think have made a huge impact and she Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer was the one of the first African American to register to vote. She struggled to make history, but she did it. Fannie got put in jail and beaten half to deaf, but she still never gave up on what was right. With famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired she accomplish many aspects of life. She was brave and not afraid to speech her mind. Not only did she change the U.S.A, she made a huge impact in history and in the constitution.


Fannie Lou Hamer was born October 6,1917, in Montgomery Country, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of slaves. She was the youngest of 19 brothers and sisters. The thing that influenced her was her religious beliefs, so, in 1962, when Fannie was 44 years old, she volunteered for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) to hold a voters registration meeting. She had realized that African-Americans had a constitutional right to vote. The SNCC members asked for volunteers to go to the courthouse to register to vote, when they were there, Fannie was the first to raise her hand and she knew that was a bad decision. She and others went to the courthouse; they were jailed and beaten by the police. Her courageous act got her thrown off the plantation where she was a sharecropper. She also began to receive constant death threats and was even shot at. Still, Fannie could not be discouraged. She became a SNCC Field Secretary and traveled around the country speaking and registering people to vote.