The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Anne Arundel County will recognize 13 local women in honor of voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

Hamer received the honor in 2025, nearly 50 years after her death. The Presidential Medal of Freedom that was posthumously awarded to Fannie Lou Hamer is officially available for public viewing. The ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Two Mississippi Museums are now displaying the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom was ...

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On Oct. 6, 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She died March 14, 1977, at age 59, after aggressively fighting breast cancer. Starkly different from 2025, where advanced ...

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Civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom is now on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The Medal of Freedom was unveiled on display in the “I Question America” ...