Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Fannie Lou Hamer and others, participating in the March Against Fear.

Fannie Lou Hamer singing to a group of people during the March Against Fear.

Mrs. Hardy, Unita Blackwell, and Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty. Hamer appears on the right side of the photo.

Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate, at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964.

Fannie Lou Hamer participating in the March Against Fear through Mississippi, 1966, begun by James Meredith.

A head-and-shoulders portrait of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer flanked by a man and woman, 1965.

Some of the keynote speakers, at the 1971 opening of the National Women’s Political Caucus. Left to right: Betty Smith, former vice chairman of the GOP in Wisconsin; Dorothy Haener, international representative, Women’s Department, United Automobile Workers Union; Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights leader from Mississippi; and Gloria Steinem, member, Democratic National Policy Council. Mrs. Hamer announced that she would challenge Senator James O. Eastland, D-Miss., if he sought reelection the next year.

Fannie Lou Hamer of Mississippi addresses the delegates on the fight over Alabama credentials, during the second session of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.