Hamer, Fannie Lou

  • Bernice Johnson Reagon: Black Women’s issues

    Speech by Bernice Johnson Reagon, given November 11, 1980 at Barnard College’s Reid Lectureship Women’s Issues Luncheon, titled “My Black Mothers and Sisters: On Beginning a Cultural Autobiography.” Tape begins with Reagon singing a poem by June Jordan. She speaks of Black women’s roles in her mother’s generation, the courageous actions of Fannie Lou Townsend…

  • A Retrospective on radical feminism / produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George.

    A documentary that looks at the development of ideas that shaped the radical women’s movement, mainly focusing on the movement in the 1970s. Includes bits of movie soundtracks, speeches and interviews with the women who made history. Topics covered in the program are women and labor unions in the early 20th century, the return to…

  • PROFILES OF MOVEMENT ACTIVISTS : part 2 / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    E.D. Nixon, a movment leader in Montogomery, Alabama, chronicles the behind the scenes activities that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Dorothy Cotton then recalls the Citizenship Education Class organizing efforts. Fannie Lou Hamer talks about the first time she registered to vote. And, finally, Reverend Bernard Lafayette, a leader of the Nashville student sit-in movement,…

  • Memorial for Malcolm X / produced by Ken Wibecan

    On the life and work of the slain Black leader. This memorial meeting was held in Rockland Palace in New York City on May 26, 1965. The speakers were Sylvester Leeks; J. D. Sokoya from the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations; Doris Turner, vice president of Local 1199 of the Hospital Workers and Drug…

  • SPOKEN WORD : CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORATORY/ produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Excerpts from historic speeches delivered during the Civil Rights movment. Includes the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Dick Gregory, and Malcolm X.|SPOKEN WORD : CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORATORY / produced by Iemanja Sibanye. – SERIES: Voices of the Civil Rights movement| no. 6. – Presents excerpts from historic speeches delivered during…

  • The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.

    A short documentary on the life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977), leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Includes Hamer’s recollections about the early civil rights movement. Hamer speaks about her early exposure to voting rights and her conversion to the campaign for human rights, about her torture at the hands of Mississippi…

  • Vietnam moratorium rally at UCB October sixty-nine.

    Actuality of noon rally at lower Sproul plaza on the Berkeley campus; includes speeches by Fannie Lou Hamer and Roger Alvarado.|VIETNAM MORATORIUM RALLY AT U.C.B. : OCTOBER SIXTY-NINE. – Actuality of a noon rally at lower Sproul plaza on the Berkeley campus. Includes speeches by Fannie Lou Hammer and Roger Alvarado. – RECORDED: University of…

  • Fannie Lou Hamer interview

    Colin Edwards interviews Fannie Lou Hamer, candidate for Congress and member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, during Hamer’s visit to Berkeley in 1965. Hamer discusses how she got involved in Freedom Democratic Party politics, the planks of the Freedom Democratic Party, and the continuing fight for voting rights and human…

  • THE POWER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN / produced by Pamela Burton, Ginny Z. Berson, Jean Robertson, Peggy Bray and Bari Scott.

    Four part program which examines the work and impact of several African-American women. Examines Sweet Honey in the Rock, Shirley Chisholm, Fanny Lou Hammer, and Rosa Parks.|THE POWER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN / produced by Pam Burton, Ginny Z. Berson, Jean Roberson, Peggy Bray and Bari Scott. Four part program which examines the work and impact…