Hamer

In 1962, Hamer attended a meeting about black voter registration sponsored by SNCC.

Born in Montgomery County, Miss., Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of 20 children.

Hamer died March 17, 1977 from complications of heart disease and breast cancer.

Hamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation.

Hamer declared in her plaintive, outspoken way: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!”

The park-like lands of Foxholes and Hamer lie close by the north side of the road.

We sell'd that to pay th' doctor's bill when poor owd Hamer next door had th' fever soa long.

I have said before that Hamer was one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced.

"And give promise of more novel but less savoury entertainment," said Hamer of Hamer.

Hamer was, however, a man of strength and sound judgment, and for this reason proved very useful to the volunteers.