Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer is remembered as a civil rights organizer. She was also the founder of Freedom Farm Cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi, a 680-acre cooperative that fed, housed, and sustained Black families in the Delta during some of the hardest years of the movement.

She understood that the struggle for the right to vote and the struggle for the right to eat were the same struggle. Freedom Farm is a foundational document in Black food sovereignty.