Children on the Plantation | Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

Learn about the extreme poverty that civil and human rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer experienced as the child of a Mississippi sharecropper family in this video adapted from Fannie Lou Hamer’s America | America ReFramed. In her own words, Hamer describes the constant hunger and hard work required to scrape by and the obstacles Black Mississippians faced in the Jim Crow South.