Fannie Lou Hamer: the life of a civil rights icon

Birth, cotton and childhood

The slavery of sharecropping

Cry the beloved parents

Death of her parents

Marriage, eugenics and adoption

Apartheid in Mississippi

The SNCC comes to Mississippi

A new political activist

Voting rights and freedom summer

Enfranchisement and training

The arrest and beating of Fannie Lou Hamer

The rescue and aftermath

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Preparing for the 1964 National Democratic Convention

The great orator

Continuation of a political struggle

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and a trip to Africa

Speaking out loud at the 1968 Democratic Convention

The end of activism

Creation of a freedom farm

The death of Fannie Lou Hamer.