Fannie Lou Hamer Statue Project
February 3, 2011 by Jennifer Lee, California State Director for EVE · 1 Comment »
Filed under Blog, Monuments and Memorials Project Updates
Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, was one of the most noteworthy leaders of the civil rights movement. The National Fannie Lou Hamer Statue Committee in Ruleville, Mississippi, is raising funds to erect a statue of Hamer beside her gravesite.
Eleven years ago Mississippi native Patricia Thompson saw the neglected and unkempt grave of Fannie [...]
