A new documentary featuring rare archival audio and video footage of civil rights icon, Fannie Lou Hamer, has received a $2,500 grant from a foundation dedicated to improving educational opportunities and community improvement in the state of Mississippi.
The Phil Hardin Foundation awarded the film, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America, which allows the Mississippi-sharecropper-turned-civil-rights-activist to tell her own story in her words, the grant to help pay for the archival footage. This is the second grant in support of the project from the Hardin Foundation, which awarded a $15,000 grant in 2019.
Slated for broadcast on PBS in February 2022, the film is 100 percent archival and features numerous speeches, songs and television appearances of the fearless Mississippi Delta native who helped thousands to register and vote during the 1960s and 70s. Hamer was also a humanitarian providing food, clothing shelter and educational opportunities for the historically underserved Delta.
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