Interview with Civil Rights Legend Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Fannie Lou Hamer explains her ordeal when she tried to register to vote in Mississippi. The date of the interview is uncertain, but we believe it happened before her testimony at the Democratic National Convention in August of 1964, which shook the nation. She was interviewed by Eleanor Sandra Fischer. Thanks to Elizabeth Starkey for making this tape available to us.