Hamer

• “But Fannie Lou Hamer is the American hero about whom most Americans know nothing.”

  Freedom Hammer

• “CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article referred to Hamer as a "pathologist.”

  The Huffington Post: Joran Van Der Sloot's Admirer: Dr. Mary Hamer Says She's The Accused Killer's 'Guardian Angel'

• “Rivers of Sand" (1974), about an Ethiopian people called the Hamer, was based on two visits, in 1968 (for about a month) and 1971 (two months).”

  NYT > Home Page

• “The Hamer is a rare flying V designed for Michael Schenker.”

  Technoracle (a.k.a. "Duane's World")

• “Fannie Lou Hamer accused him of putting his political ambitions above his commitment to civil rights.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

• “Just four years later, in 1968, Mississippi sent an integrated delegation to the Democratic National Convention; many of the Freedom Democrats were delegates, including Fannie Lou Hamer.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

• “But my mom says, Mrs. Hamer testified in front of Congress in 1963 about how she was treated in jail in Mississippi.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ten Miles Past Normal

• “Richard Hamer When a poet in the Middle Ages looked at a book s/he didn't see something pristine, like my copy of Klaeber's Beowulf, which is still too new to be dog-eared and worn.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Mohammed Abu Sbeaa, a 21-year-old fighter in the Hamer Brigade, named after Tripoli's prerevolutionary parliament building, said he went through several weeks of training after joining the unit in mid-July.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Length of Libya's Standoff Hinges on Leader's Militia

• “But my model of political activism includes the people featured in the Nation's recent article "The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century," or Fannie Lou Hamer, whose testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention was for me an early model of the courage that political activism entailed.”

  The Huffington Post: Mira Schor: Lowering the Bar on Activism

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