Higher Consciousness: Before There Was Stacey Abrams, There Was Fannie Lou Hamer

Higher Consciousness

Higher Consciousness is a program that focuses on the physical as well as metaphysical, cultural, political and spiritual dimensions. All shows are archived; the shows are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Link:www.blogtalkradio.com/blogtalkradiooyindeenterprises Join us for a discussion about Women's History Month honoring the late Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights Pioneer and Civil Rights Leader HOST: Professor Jamela Franklin TOPIC: Before There was Stacey Abrams, There Was Fannie Lou Hamer TONIGHT DATE: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 TIME: 7:00 pm-8:00 pm Call us at 1-818 572-8023 and press 1 to share your views. .To schedule an appointment with Professor Franklin, visit our website for our products and services: Oyindeenterprises.com; . 770-882-7347 Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was a civil rights activist whose passionate depiction of her own suffering in a racist society helped focus attention on the plight of African-Americans throughout the South. In 1964, working with the.Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer helped organize the 1964 Freedom Summer African American voter registration drive in her native Mississippi. At the Democratic National Convention later that year, she was part of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an integrated group of activists who openly challenged the legality of Mississippi’s all-white, segregated delegation.