# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fannie-lou-hamer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:31.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fannie-lou-hamer"
name: "Fannie Lou Hamer"
slug: "fannie-lou-hamer"
description: "Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who sought election to government offices."
tagline: "American civil rights activist (1917–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fannie_Lou_Hamer_1964-08-22.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1917-10-06"
deathDate: "1977-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.576704545454545
  historical:           23.01476133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump