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- Birth nameFannie Lou Townsend
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, USA. She was a writer, known for Fannie (2022), The Way to Freedom: Selma and the Making of a Movement (2021) and Festival (1967). She was married to Perry "Pap" Hamer. She died on March 14, 1977 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, USA.
- SpousePerry "Pap" Hamer(July 11, 1944 - March 15, 1977) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenDorothy Jean HamerVergie Rae Hamer
- ParentsElla Lou TownsendJames Lee Townsend
- RelativesLaura Ratliff(Sibling)
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
- Mississippi sharecropper and organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Party, which challenged the white domination of the Democratic Party.
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