A new documentary featuring rare archival audio and video footage of the late civil rights icon, Fannie Lou Hamer, has received a $10,000 grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) as part of their “Reflecting Mississippi” program.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a 90-minute film that allows Hamer, an often-overlooked proponent for equal rights during the 1960s and 70s to tell her own story – in her own words. And it is scheduled for broadcast on PBS in February 2022.
Dr. Stuart Rockoff, executive director of MHC, said the new and original film “will help shine a light on one of Mississippi’s most extraordinary people.”
“Mrs. Hamer was an important, authentic leader, who challenged Mississippi and America to live up to its constitutional ideals,” he said further.
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