Passing the Torch: Fannie Lou Hamer and Stacey Abrams
Fannie Lou Hamer and Stacey Abrams, two women who have made and are making great strides as activists and political leaders. A civil and voting rights activist, Hamer led volunteers to the courthouse to register to vote in 1962, but they were denied their right due to an unjust literacy test. As a co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Hamer made it her mission to put an end to voting discrimination. She even helped organize the Freedom Summer in 1964, bringing together college students of all races to support African American voting rights in a segregated South. After being