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Interview: Fannie Lou Hamer, 1966
MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER
Interviewed 1966 by:
Anne Romaine
Howard Romaine
Interviewer: Where are they now?
Hamer: California
Interviewer: What are they doing out there?
Hamer: Working.
Interviewer: Just working. Not with SNCC?
Hamer: No, they're not with SNCC.
Interviewer: .... Bob Moses. Have you seen him?
Hamer: No, I haven't seen Bob in quite a qatx while. I miss that man.
Interviewer: Why did he leave?
Hamer: I really don't know. Bob, I really think, you know, so many
things happened, I guess if I wasn't as old as I am Iguess it could happen to
me too. I've seen so many ... things in this country. What we thought were
different things. It was altogether another different thing. Bob become sick
of it all, I guess. I don't even know where Bob Is. That's one hkx human
being, one of the greatest men I ever met. One of the greatest human beings
on earth.
Interviewer: What did he do? That's one of the things we've been
interested in in interviewing people ... different style that SNCC brought
in Mississippi when they first came in and so different from NAACP.
Hamer: It worked with the people. NAACP don't work with the people.
Object Description
| Title | Romaine--Anne Romaine Interviews, 1966-1967 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 1069, Folder 1) |
| Author/Creator | Romaine, Anne |
| Folder Description | For anyone interested in blow-by-blow descriptions of the political maneuvering at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, this is the folder to look at. In 1966 and 1967 Romaine interviewed many of the significant people in the history of the civil rights movement, particularly those involved in SNCC and the MFDP. These are the transcriptions of those interviews. Allard Lowenstein discusses the 1963 origins of the Freedom Vote, the Freedom Summer project, and the challenge to the Democratic Party of Mississippi at the Democratic National Convention as well as racial tensions among civil rights organizations. Annie Devine talks about her early efforts to combine voter registration activities with her occupation as an insurance agent doing door-to-door solicitation, gender differences, her congressional candidacy, and her experiences as a MFDP delegate at the Democratic National Convention. Ella Baker discusses the early 1960s interest in voter registration as a political organizing strategy and a way to develop "indigenous leadership." She also describes COFO's development as an umbrella organization of civil rights groups, racial tensions within the organizations, her national fund raising efforts for the movement, and the Mississippi challenge to the Democratic National Convention. Sandy Leigh discusses the purpose and origins of the MFDP, the Freedom Vote, Victoria Gray's role, and poor white Mississippians who benefited from some of the COFO clothing and food drives. Ed King talks about the strategy and behind the scenes negotiations of the Mississippi challenge at the 1964 Democratic National Convention as well as class and other tensions between COFO and the NAACP leadership in Mississippi. Robert Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin congressman, also tells of the MFDP challenge at the Democratic National Convention. Fannie Lou Hamer talks about SNCC, the NAACP, the War on Poverty, the MFDP's challenge at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, and her faith. Lawrence Guyot discusses COFO's beginnings, legal cases important to Mississippi civil rights, the development of the Freedom Registration Form, MFDP's accomplishments, and the aftermath in Mississippi of the MFDP's challenge to the Democratic National Convention. Ivanhoe Donaldson discusses COFO and SNCC and his role in the MFDP's challenge to the Democratic National Convention. Mendy Samstein talks about the strategic significance and tensions involved with the white college students who participated in the civil rights movement, the Hattiesburg Freedom Day, COFO's origins and internal tensions, the development of community organizing and the origins of the MFDP, organizing for the MFDP's challenges to the Democratic Party of Mississippi at its state convention and at the Democratic National Convention of 1964. Bob Moses discusses the black-dominated civil rights movement in Mississippi in the early 1960s, the rise of COFO, and the arrival of clergy and a few white college students just before Freedom Summer. Walter Tillow discusses the national lobbying done in advance of the MFDP's challenge to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 and his experiences at the convention itself. Joseph Rauh--council for the MFDP, Walter Reuther's employee, and Hubert Humphrey's friend--discusses his roles at the Democratic National Convention. |
| State | Mississippi; Georgia; Tennessee; Alabama; New Jersey; Virginia; Ohio; Washington, D.C.; |
| Place | Greenwood; Jackson; Biloxi; Madison County; McComb; Forrest County; Hattiesburg; Canton; Palmer's Crossing; Liberty; Vicksburg; Sunflower County; Greenville; Clarksdale; Neshoba County; Philadelphia; Ruleville; Batesville; Holmes County; Meridian; Jasper County; Newton County; Cleveland; Albany; Atlanta; Nashville; Selma; Birmingham; Atlantic City; Danville; Oxford; |
| Subject | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council); Freedom Vote; Freedom Day; voter registration; police; Democratic Party (Miss.); mass media; church buildings; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Republican Party (U.S.); Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Congress of Racial Equality; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; race; Black power; demonstrations ; threats; intimidation;; unemployment; voting; assault and battery; bombings; arson; Mississippi Freedom Schools; women; nonviolence; civil rights movements; volunteers; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; clergy; United States. Department of Justice; United States. Supreme Court; host families; clothing and dress; poor; food drives; libraries; volunteers; labor unions; Whites; United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; social conflict; African Americans; International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; mass media; War on Poverty; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Ku Klux Klan; food relief; arrest; lawyers; lynching; murder; Mississippi State Penitentiary; Southern Regional Council; Civil rights demonstrations; freedom rides; California Democratic Council; Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.); jails; Americans for Preservation of the White Race; White Citizens councils; volunteers; parents; Southern Conference Educational Fund; segregation; |
| Personal Name | Lowenstein, Allard K.; DeVine, Annie; Baker, Ella, 1903-1986; Leigh, Sandy; King, Edward; Kastenmeier, Robert; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012 ; Donaldson, Ivanhoe; Samstein, Mendy; Moses, Robert Parris; Tillow, Walter; Rauh, Joseph L., 1911- ; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Jenkins, Tim; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Forman, James, 1928-2005; Edelman, Marian Wright; Raymond, George; Dennis, David; Green, Edith, 1910-1987; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; McDew, Charles; Sherrod, Charles, 1937- ; Jones, Charles; Belafonte, Harry, 1927- ; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968; Moore, Amzie; Hardy, John; Nash, Diane, 1938- ; Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.); Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970; Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Pratt, Jack; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Lynd, Theron C.; Beech, Robert, 1935-2008; Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21- ; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Cameron, John, Rev.; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981; Young, Andrew, 1932- ; Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965; Wynn, Douglas; Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.); Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963; Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Hawks, Elizabeth; Lawrence, David Leo, 1889-1966; Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979; Mondale, Walter F., 1928- ; Markman, Sherwin; Doar, John, 1921- ; Block, Sam; Peacock, Wazir; Brown, Lavarne; Gregory, Dick; Greene, Dewey; Smith, Frank; Lane, Mary; Hayes, Curtis; Bond, Julian, 1940- ; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Thomas, Arthur; Stone, Robert John, 1919-; Lee, Herbert; Bryant, Curtis C., 1917-2007; Horowitz, Rochelle; Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996; Canson, Virna M., 1921-; Hanson, Bruce; Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933- ; Newman, Stanley; Alperovitz, Gar; Diggs, Charles C.; Watkins, Hollis, 1941- ; Jones, James Oscar, 1943- ; McLaurin, Charles; Lindsay, Merrill W.; Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008; Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010; Robinson, Reginald; Hill, Norman, 1933- ; Jones, Barbara; Holmes, Eleanor K.; Higgs, Bill; Bender, Rita L.; Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998; Alden, Tom; Connolly, John; Sanders, Carl Edward, 1925-; O'Donnell, Kenneth P., 1924-1977; White, Lee C., 1923-; Goodwin, Richard N.; Allman, Al; Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976; Turner, Jay; |
| Event Date | 1960-1968; |
| Year | 1960-1968; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Anne Romaine Interviews, 1966-1967; Archives Main Stacks, SC 1069, Folder 1; WIHVR2050-A |
| Format | interview transcriptions; |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2012 |
| Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
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| Digital Identifier | fsRomaine000 |
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| Page Text | Interview: Fannie Lou Hamer, 1966 MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER Interviewed 1966 by: Anne Romaine Howard Romaine Interviewer: Where are they now? Hamer: California Interviewer: What are they doing out there? Hamer: Working. Interviewer: Just working. Not with SNCC? Hamer: No, they're not with SNCC. Interviewer: .... Bob Moses. Have you seen him? Hamer: No, I haven't seen Bob in quite a qatx while. I miss that man. Interviewer: Why did he leave? Hamer: I really don't know. Bob, I really think, you know, so many things happened, I guess if I wasn't as old as I am Iguess it could happen to me too. I've seen so many ... things in this country. What we thought were different things. It was altogether another different thing. Bob become sick of it all, I guess. I don't even know where Bob Is. That's one hkx human being, one of the greatest men I ever met. One of the greatest human beings on earth. Interviewer: What did he do? That's one of the things we've been interested in in interviewing people ... different style that SNCC brought in Mississippi when they first came in and so different from NAACP. Hamer: It worked with the people. NAACP don't work with the people. |
| Language | English |
| Source | Anne Romaine Interviews, 1966-1967; Archives Main Stacks, SC 1069, Folder 1; |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2012 |
| Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
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| Digital Identifier | fsRomaine127 |