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Showing posts with label Fannie Lou Hamer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fannie Lou Hamer. Show all posts
10 April 2025
VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 9APR25
18 July 2015
'Songs Of Salvation': Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer's Music 18JUL15
WHAT a glorious voice from a beautiful, inspirational woman who refused to be beaten down by the hate, bigotry, prejudice and ignorance of her time. Thank you Fannie Lou Hamer, I wish you were here to sing us through today's trying times. From +NPR .....
There was a voice during the civil rights movement of the 1960s
that soothed and inspired those who marched on Southern streets and
tried to sit at segregated lunch counters.
Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper's daughter who grew up to become an activist and a musician. She registered black voters, stood up to bigotry, and was beaten by the police for her heroism. In 1983, Worth Long of the Smithsonian Institution put together a cassette recording of Hamer's music and recollections. That collection has just been reissued.
"Ms. Hamer sang songs of salvation, songs of redemption, songs of struggle," Long says, "and it calmed the people as they sat there on the bus, being intimidated because they wanted to be citizens of this great country."
Hear more from Long's conversation with NPR' Scott Simon at the audio link.
From left, Guy Carawan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bernice Johnson
Reagon, and Len Chandler perform Civil Rights songs at the 1965 Newport
Folk Festival.
Diana Davies/Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper's daughter who grew up to become an activist and a musician. She registered black voters, stood up to bigotry, and was beaten by the police for her heroism. In 1983, Worth Long of the Smithsonian Institution put together a cassette recording of Hamer's music and recollections. That collection has just been reissued.
"Ms. Hamer sang songs of salvation, songs of redemption, songs of struggle," Long says, "and it calmed the people as they sat there on the bus, being intimidated because they wanted to be citizens of this great country."
Hear more from Long's conversation with NPR' Scott Simon at the audio link.
11 April 2014
U.S.Campaign Finance "With the people, for the people, by the people, I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens." -Fannie Lou Hamer 10APR14
voice of the day
"With the people, for the people, by the people, I crack up when I
hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful,
'cause that's what really happens."
-Fannie Lou Hamer
Support campaign finance reform now
Echoing the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in McCutcheon v. FEC promises to flood our democratic process with even more money. Sign the petition below to demand meaningful campaign finance reform now.
All Members of both political parties:We have passed laws to reform the campaign finance system in the past, and we can do so again.
Whether it’s comprehensive campaign finance reform or a constitutional amendment, I urge you to take immediate action to protect the voices of all Americans by reversing the effects of Citizens United and McCutcheon.
Our democracy is not for sale.
WE can never give up the fight to overturn the recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance. This country doesn't belong to the rich and powerful, it belongs to all of us. We must keep up the pressure on all our elected officials at the local, state and national levels to pass campaign finance reform or a constitutional amendment. While you may be tired of this issue, tired of the petitions and e mails, and may even be thinking the wealthy and corporate America are to powerful to win this fight we can not give up. Please sign this latest petition....
Please sign the petition from Daily Kos and a coalition of Democratic members of Congress demanding comprehensive campaign finance reform or a constitutional amendment in response to Citizens United and the new McCutcheon Supreme Court decision. Click here to add your name.
The Supreme Court’s new, horrifying McCutcheon decision—so soon after Citizens United—promises to flood our democratic process with even more money.
The Koch Brothers can now write a check to every Republican in the country. And that’s really scary.
But we need to remember that we have passed laws to reform the campaign finance system in the past, and we can do it again. Our work begins today.
Join Daily Kos and a coalition of Democratic members of Congress to sign the petition “our democracy is not for sale”—and pledge to support campaign finance reform now.
Keep fighting,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos
30 September 2011
WORDS OF WISDOM FOR ALL OF US IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES 30SEP11
 "Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another." - Zechariah 7:10 | |
 "Christianity is being concerned about your fellow [people], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength." - Fannie Lou Hamer  God, we pray for all legislators, presidents, judges, and advisers. Give them wisdom and strength to lead, and the courage to seek justice for the poor and marginalized. Amen. | |
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