Hamer

[ hey-mer ]

noun

1. Fannie Lou, 1917–77, U.S. civil rights activist.

Example Sentences

In March, her partner Jude Hamer, who has represented GB in wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics, gave birth to their son Noah and Rowles has been passionate in speaking about sexuality, diversity and representation.

From BBC

Those historical musings followed Harrison and Democratic National Convention chairwoman Minyon Moore opening the convention Monday afternoon by honoring civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson for his 1980s presidential bids and evoking the legacies of Chisholm, the first Black woman to seek the Democratic nomination, and Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black civil rights activist whose famous 1964 testimony would see its 60th anniversary on the day of Harris' Thursday nomination.

From Salon

"It's just a continuation of Fannie Lou Hamer. It's a continuation of Barbara Jordan, Marcia Fudge — all of these women who leaped down on faith to say, 'Black women, you need to hear our voices. America, you need to hear our voices. We have something to say, and we're going to say it.'"

From Salon

Attendees and speakers also called upon another slice of Black women's history as they traversed the halls of the United Center: that Harris was to officially be declared the Democratic nominee for president 60 years to the day of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer testifying before the DNC credentials committee in a landmark speech.

From Salon

Hamer, a former sharecropper and a leader of the racially integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, objected to the seating of an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

From Salon