Fannie Lou Hamer, the iconic and trailblazing civil rights activist is one of history’s most powerful, yet often forgotten voices. When she stood behind a podium she did not need a microphone to help her command a room, she could do that all on her own. Four years after her death, Fannie Lou Hamer is telling her own story.
When Hamer spoke, it was with such conviction that people felt her power and magnitude. Joy Davenport, director of the documentary film Fannie Lou Hamer’s America, knew it was crucial that Hamer be the one to narrate her own story.