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"Fannie Lou Hamer Exhibit",,"History librarian DeeDee Baldwin with document reproductions and books on display at the ""Tea Time Reflections: A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voting Struggle"" event.",,,,,,2022-10-15,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1976/20221015_165637.jpg,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Program for ""Fannie Lou Hamer Day and Banquet""",,"Program, including brief biography, for a banquet honoring Fannie Lou Hamer at Ruleville Central High School in Ruleville, Mississippi.",,,,"Ruleville Central High School (Ruleville, Miss.)",,1970-03-29,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Blackwell, Unita, 1933-2019; Brooks, Owen H.; Clark, Robert George, 1929-; McLaurin, Charles; African Americans; Ruleville (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Delta Ministry, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Library",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Fannie Lou Hamer
Day And Banquet
Ruleville Central High School
360 North Division Street
Ruleville, Mississippi
Sunday, March 29, 1970
4 p.m.
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Menu
Turkey and Dressing
Tossed Salad
Cranberry Sauce
English Peas
Rolls
Punch
Cake
Planning Committee
Mrs. Patsy King, Drew, Miss.
Mrs. Juanita Harvey, Ruleville, Miss.
Mr. Joseph Harris, Sunflower, Miss.
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Program
Joseph Harris, Toastmaster
Invocation - Rev. Robinson
Welcome - Mr. H. R. Smith
Principal, Ruleville Central High School
Music - The Hamerettes
Speaker - Mrs. Cora Harvey
""Mrs. Hamer's Childhood""
Speaker - Charles McLaurin
""Mrs. Hamer's Involvement in Civil Rights""
Speaker - Rev. Clifton Whitley
Chairman, FBP
""Mrs. Hamer And FBP""
Music - The Hamerettes
Speaker - Mr. Owen Brooks
Director, Delta Ministry
Speaker - Mrs. Unita Blackwell
National Council of Negro Women
Music
Speaker - Ed Brown
Director, MACE
Speaker - Dr. Aaron Henry
State President, NAACP
Special Presentation - Joseph Harris
Music
Introduction of Guest Speaker - Joseph Harris
Guest Speaker - Representative Robert Clark
Holmes County
Address - Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
Music
Announcements
Benediction
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Biography Of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi one of twenty children. She began working in the cotton fields at the age of six.
For eighteen years of her adult life, Mrs. Hamer worked as a sharecropper and time-keeper on a plantation four miles east of Ruleville, Mississippi, where she now lives. But in 1962 she was fired as a reprisal after attempting to vote. Shortly thereafter she left her family and went with friends because of threats on her life. During this period the house in which she was staying was riddled with sixteen gun shots, but she miraculously escaped. Within a year she had become the most dynamic woman to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement.
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), of which Mrs. Hamer is a founder and Vice Chairman was organized in Jackson, Mississippi on April 26, 1964 because the regular Democratic party did not admit Negroes. The Mississippi Freedom party is the state's only party to both Negroes and Whites. It has concentrated on representing the poor of the state, both white and black.
Mrs. Hamer and the MFDP first came to national prominence in August of 1964, when she led a delegation of Mississippi citizens to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There they challenged the seats of the regular Mississippi delegation. The results of the challenge was an unprecedented pledge from the National Democratic party not to seat delegations that excluded Negroes at the next National Convention, in 1968.
Mrs. Hamer, Vice-president of Freedom Farm Co-op, an organization for community development for under-privileged blacks of Sunflower County.
In 1964, Mrs. Hamer attempted to run for congress in the second Mississippi Congressional District, representing twenty four counties. She was not allowed on the ballot. The MFDP then conceived the ""Freedom Ballot"" idea. All candidates' names, white and black, were placed on this ballot. When the vote was counted, Mrs. Hamer had received 33,009 votes and her opponent, Congressman Jamie Whitten, only 49.
Thereafter, on January 4, 1965, Mrs. Hamer, along with Mrs. Annie Devine and Mrs. Victoria Gray took her appeal to the Congress in a dramatic challenge to the seats of the entire Mississippi delegation to the House of Representatives, all of who are white, in a state where almost 50 percent of the population is Negro. On September 17, 1965, their challenge was argued on the floor of the House and was defeated 228-143. The three, who were there to witness the votes, had been the first Negro women ever to sit on the House's floor.
Mrs. Hamer's life has been threatened countless times. She was jailed and beaten in the Delta Town of Winona, Miss., in June 1963 when she attempted to use restroom facilities in a Trailway's bus station, after the ICC had issued regulations barring discrimination in such facilities. This episode has left her with cronic injuries.
Mrs. Hamer has received two honorary degrees: an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, issued by the faculty upon approval of the Board of Trustees June 1, 1969. She received a honorary degree of ""Doctor of Humanities"" from Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 1969. She also received several awards: A tribute for her strong defense of human dignity and fearless promotion of Civil Rights in her native state of Mississippi was presented to her by Hugh M. Closter, president Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. On August 14, 1969 Mrs. Hamer received the Mary Church Terrell Award from Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., for her relentless fight against all forms of racism, intolerance, and political, social and economic oppression.
A forthright and much sought-after speaker, Mrs. Hamer travel widely, seeking support for the crucial struggle for free elections in her own Sunflower County, the home of Senator James O. Eastland. Mrs. Hamer was plaintiff in the suit which recently set aside the election in the towns of Sunflower and Moorhead, which MFDP ran an all black slate. She has led many successful campaigns for voter registration. She recently conducted a voter registration in Sunflower County for three months which registered 2,000 voters.
Mrs. Hamer lives in Ruleville with her husband, Perry. He is a skilled tractor driver but has been unable to find permanent work since 1962 because of his own and his wife's Civil Rights activities until he was recently employed by the Associated Communities of Sunflower County, a Negro Headstart group, hauling children to and from school.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,"https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_1.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_2.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_3.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_4.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_5.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_6.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1972/Ruleville_program_7.jpg",Text,"A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Fannie Lou Hamer Speaking at Mississippi State",,"Yearbook photo of Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at Mississippi State in 1969. She was invited by the Afro-American Plus club, which was organized in 1968.",,,,"Reveille Yearbook",,1969,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; Mississippi State University; African Americans",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"1969 Reveille",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1974/msuspeech.png,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Program for Fannie Lou Hamer Speech at Pilgrim Rest M. B. Church",,"Program, including a brief biography, for a speech given by Fannie Lou Hamer for ""The Women of Pilgrim Rest M. B. Church"" in Greenville, Mississippi. Includes notes and corrections in pencil.",,,,"Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church (Greenville, Miss.)",,1969-08-31,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church (Greenville, Miss.); African Americans; African American churches",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Delta Ministry, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Library",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The Women of Pilgrim Rest M. B. Church
Present
Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer
Dynamic Civil Rights Leader
Sunday, August 31, 1969, 7:30 p.m.
PILGRIM REST M. B. CHURCH
Third and Grand Streets
Greenville, Mississippi
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MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, 51, was born in Montgomery County to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Townsend. She is one of twenty (20) children, the daughter of a Minister, and was baptized 41 years ago by Rev. Richard Callien.
Her parents were Sharecroppers. In 1962 she was fired as a reprisal after attempting to register to vote. She went to live with friends and their house was riddled with sixteen (16) gunshots, from which she miraculously escaped. Within a year she became the most dynamic woman to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement.
Mrs. Hamer and the Freedom Democratic Party came to National Prominence in August 1964, when she led a delegation of Mississippi Citizens to the National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The results of the Challenge was an unprecedented pledge from the National Democratic Party not to seat a delegation that excluded Negroes at the next National Convention in 1968.
Mrs. Hamer has received two (2) Honorary Degrees: an Honorary Degree of Human Letters from Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi issued by the faculty upon approval of the Board of Trustees, June 1, 1969, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanity from Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 8, 1969. She also received several Awards as a tribute for her strong defense of human dignity and fearless promotion of Civil Rights in her native state of Mississippi. They were presented to her by President Hugh M. Gloster, June 3, 1969. On August 14, 1969, Mrs. Hamer received the Mary Church Terrell Award from Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. for her relentless fight against all forms of racism, intolerance, political, social, and economic oppression.
A forth-right and much sought after speaker, Mrs. Hamer, has traveled throughout the United States and abroad.
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WOMEN'S NIGHT
Theme: ""Women of Decision""
PROGRAMME
Mistress of Ceremonies - Sister Thelma Mitchell
ORGAN PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL HYMN - Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus - 2 S. H.
CALL TO WORSHIP - Glory Be to the Father - 658 S. H.
DEVOTION - Scripture - Mother Leanna Walker
Prayer - Mother Fannie Dofford
MUSIC - God Is So Wonderful - Arr. by Paul Ferrin
GREETINGS AND RECOGNITION OF GUESTS - Sister Valeria Brown
TRIBUTE TO WOMEN OF DECISION - Sister Shirley West
MUSIC - You Can't Beat God Giving - Arr. by Doris Akers
Soloist, Mrs. J. F. Redmon
OFFERTORY - Led by Offertory Committee
DOXOLOGY - Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow - (Congregation)
ANTHEM - How Great Thou Art - Arr. by Mickleson
PRESENTATION OF GUEST SPEAKER - Mrs. Thelma Barnes
GUEST SPEAKER - Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
SPIRITUAL - Ride On King Jesus - Arr. by Hall B. Johnson
Soloist, Mrs. Bobbie Jean Gort
FINANCIAL REPORT
REMARKS - Pastor - Rev. J. F. Redmon
BENEDICTION - The Minister
POSTLUDE
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A Note of Appreciation
The Women of the Pilgrim Rest M. B. Church are deeply appreciative of Mrs. Hamer's appearing as our guest speaker on this program.
We are also grateful to all the participants and to you who turned aside from your busy schedules and came to witness the program.
Thanks for your financial assistance and may God's richest blessings attend you ever.
Program Committee
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Once to every woman and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's New Messiah
Offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand,
And the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever twixt
That darkness and that light.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,"https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1971/Pilgrim_program_1.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1971/Pilgrim_program_2.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1971/Pilgrim_program_3.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1971/Pilgrim_program_4.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1971/Pilgrim_program_5.jpg",Text,"A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Hamer Campaign Platform",,"Campaign platform of Fannie Lou Hamer during her run for the Mississippi state senate in 1971.",,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou",,1971,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; African Americans; Mississippi--History; Elections--Mississippi",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Delta Ministry, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Library",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"I, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, representing ALL people of Sunflower County, am running for State Senate. If I am elected, I will do my uttermost to carry out my duties as State Senator.
My platform consist of the following:
WELFARE
1) Welfare legislation is necessary to provide 100 per cent of need rather than 27% and to require that Black Workers are hired in policy making positions.
2) Legislation to change law which prohibits counties from receiving Federal Funds to set up housing for poor and elderly.
3) Erect legislation for State Medical Aid program for poor of all ages under Federal law which provide for Medical program.
VOTER REGISTRATION AND ELECTION LAW
4) Mobile Voter Registration
5) Change law to permit registration after 6 months residence and to permit registration up to one month before election.
6) Support MFDP court action to change election law:
a) Independent qualify one month before general election.
b) Voting in party primary should disqualify an Independent Candidate.
c) Low voting age to 18
EDUCATION
7) Legislation to require Negro History be taught in all Mississippi Schools.
8) Teachers ought be given tenure after three years in a School System - give teachers job security so they would not be afraid to help the Black Community.
9) More money for School System
a) Special Remedial Courses
b) Free Lunch Programs for the poor
LAW ENFORCEMENT
10) Change in ""fee"" System in Law Enforcement so that Sheriff and Constables will not arrest Negroes to pay car note
TAXATION
11) Uniform Taxation rate for property throughout Mississippi so that plantation owners and big businessmen will have to pay their fair share of taxes.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,"https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1970/Hamer_speech_1.jpg,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1970/Hamer_speech_2.jpg",Text,"A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Yulanda Haddix and Cherraye Oats",,"Oktibbeha County NAACP chair Yulanda Haddix with Cherraye Oats, a niece of Fannie Lou Hamer, at the ""Tea Time Reflections: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voting Struggle"" event held by the Oktibbeha NAACP at Starkville's J. L. King Center.",,,,"Baldwin, DeeDee",,2022-10-15,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oktibbeha Branch; Starkville (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1994/20221015_192242.jpg,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Oktibbeha NAACP Members and Political Candidates",,"Members of the Oktibbeha County NAACP with political candidates who spoke at the ""Tea Time Reflections: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voting Struggle"" event held at Starkville's J. L. King Center.",,,,"Baldwin, DeeDee",,2022-10-15,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oktibbeha Branch; Starkville (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1993/20221015_190839.jpg,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Rural Study Representatives",,"Dr. Ervin Fox, a cardiologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with MSU student assistants representing the Rural Study at the ""Tea Time Reflections: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voting Struggle"" event held by the Oktibbeha NAACP at Starkville's J. L. King Center.",,,,"Baldwin, DeeDee",,2022-10-15,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oktibbeha Branch; Starkville (Miss.); Medical care",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1992/20221015_181818.jpg,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Birthday Cakes for Fannie Lou Hamer",,"Birthday cakes at the ""Tea Time Reflections: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voting Struggle"" event held by the Oktibbeha NAACP at Starkville's J. L. King Center.",,,,"Baldwin, DeeDee",,2022-10-15,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oktibbeha Branch; Starkville (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1991/20221015_174024.jpg,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0
"Fannie Lou Hamer Poster",,"Reproduction of a Fannie Lou Hamer poster from the MSU Libraries, on display at the ""Tea Time Reflections: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voting Struggle"" event held by the Oktibbeha NAACP at Starkville's J. L. King Center.",,,,"Baldwin, DeeDee",,2022-10-15,,,,,,,,,"Hamer, Fannie Lou; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oktibbeha Branch; Starkville (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hamer,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/16/1990/20221015_174002.jpg,"Still Image","A Celebration of Fannie Lou Hamer ",1,0