Fannie Lou Hamer Interview 1965
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2018
- Colin Edwards interviews Fannie Lou Hamer on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, voting rights, human rights, and politics during an interview he taped during her visit to Berkeley. Mrs. Hamer also relates a vicious beating she received in a Winona, Mississippi, jail from two African American prisoners forced by officials. She discusses her admiration for the Deacons for Defense and her friendship with Malcolm X.
And they keep saying that she only had a "six grade education." Does she sound like or speak like a "6th" grader to you? Just because she drop out of school early did not mean that she stop learning. Ignorant people.
Exactly
Perfectly true to form!
Education is all lies and doesn't measure true intelligence that only the Holy Spirit, the Great Comforter, can bring, namely that of Truth, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Fanny Lou Hamer had all of these. All praises, Holy Father! ❤️🕊️📕👪🐑
She's truly my hero. I love her so much.
ME 2 ❤
I would like to see a movie about her struggles during the civil rights movement.
i agree but only if they don't whitewash her. There were many Black Civil Rights leaders who thought she was too extremist (not to mention the white folks). i can easily see a movie of her life whitewashing her like they do MLK as a passive, kumbaya integrationist.
I agree 1000%....
AMEN!! Mrs. Hamer is a true dedicated courageous leader she is strictly a “GEM” she is definitely my “ SHEROE” RIH MY DEAR❤🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Amen she spoke with everything she had in her soul love to hear her speak!
*About her whole life*
I keep thinking back to how old I was, where I was, in 1965. ....what were my parents doing? Did they hear Fannies voice? Part of me wants to look back in my history from the perspective of my parents at a time in MY life ‘15 years old’ when I didn’t have a clue. Thanks to interviews like this I now have a clue. Thank you Fannie.
This was indeed a very fine lady! The details of her vicious assault in prison at 25m would make a stone weep.
Greetings from Northern Ireland xx
For Fannie to pick herself up out of sharecropping and develop a fighting organization for human freedom against all odds puts her in the company of the best of that generation. Her clarity and humanity after what she'd been through is hard to understand. She saw the US as it truly was, a contradiction of vicious cruelty and personal failure at the top levels yet quite capable organized resistance at the bottom.
Brilliant woman
Well written. You truly have a solid foundation and understanding of this brave women. Thank you.
She needs a statue in Mississippi ✊🏽 A true freedom fighter ❤️
@@Cristina-ub3dv I agree. She deserves a statue for sure.
You said she saw the use as it was, you mean it still is just as bad.
NEVER DEFEATED! GOD BLESS HER
Right On Ms. Hamer❤🖤💚...(RIP) Queen
She would have been an exceptional congresswoman.
Here here, i was hearing about her on the pbs documentary on the Freedom Schools. Terrific lady and undercut and betrayed by LBJ....and hus impromtu speech....dreadful business
Brilliant
Better than many today!
👍🏽💯🤔
God raised up his servant Mrs Hamer I have never met a greater person
We need a movie about this brilliant, courageous woman!! I knew nothing about her, until now....she is such an important part of AA History!!!
We need a movie for real !!!!
And an important part of everybody's U.S. history too.
As long as an ADOS person play her
I firmly believe if she was running for office in today's Democratic party, she would be denied by every means necessary. She was brave and intelligent as any honorable American.
WE AS A PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY!!! MUST NOT LET THIS POWERUL!! HIISTORY!!! BE SILENT!! ENEY!!! LONGER!! AND TEACHING!! SHALL!!! START!! IN EVERY BLACK 'S!! HOME!!! VERY, VERY,VERY POWERFUL!!! BLACK !!! QUEEN!!!
I Really Appreciate Fannie As A Woman And Hero🙏🏾❤️😘 May This Good Woman Rest In Peace And Look Down Upon Our Race And For The Ppl That Fights The Same Fight That We All Deserve And THATS Fairness, Being Treated Right And Equality..
Monsieur Colin Edwards, British journalist audio interview with Madame Fannie Lou Hamer on 24 sept 1965
4:18 FLH: And what I'm curious to see: do the Constitution of the United States mean anything? So far hadn't worked. And I'm sick of seeing this kind of stuff on paper. We want them to do something about it because we are a part of America because we didn't come here on our own, our parents and our descendants was from Africa and we didn't come on our own. But we do want to be treated as human beings. And I'm fighting for human rights, not for equal rights.
7:02 FLH: the world can see that we are not free in America. And, that make nobody free here until all- we all are free
9:03 CE: you don't think in terms of just Negro rights but individual rights?
FLH: Individual rights. You see, it doesn't matter to me whether the person is an Indian, a Jew, a Chinese, a Mexican, whatever a nation they are, I think they should have their rights
13:08 FLH: we push for medical care, you know, because not only can aged people be sick without money but young people can be sick without money. And I think any person that need medical care should be, you know, treated.
I Have The Same Fire In Me As Mrs. Hamer! I 'HATE' Unfairness!
...And this savage country hasn't changed since.
We have different Gods
Oh my Father i have grained a lot from reading these articles. Thanks
What an amazing woman. Much wiser and smarter than I will ever be, easily. I remember reading "This Little Light of Mine" in the 1990s, and wondering, then, why Ms. Hamer got lost as some sort of footnote of the movement toward the end of her short life. I'm glad to see these interviews archived, the documentaries, and now let's see a biographical film about her remarkable life.
What an amazing lady 😎❤️
🙏🏽 for this.
This is why everyone should vote
Soldier!
MLH, what a Role Model you are !🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
She was the best.
Deacons of Defense, early Black Panther?
deacons were a result of the communist party of alabama all black all armed
The deacons of defense started in Louisiana. They like many black men of that era felt that no matter how peaceful ♥ they were they were still being beaten arrested having their homes and churches fire bombed. At one point this group of deacons got together and stood up against the brutal racism and unfair treatment they went through. The person below me stated it was a communist movement. The only time these people speak about communism is when the people who have been oppressed are standing up and speaking out.
Monsieur Colin Edwards, British journalist audio interview with Madame Fannie Lou Hamer on 24 sept 1965
10:17 FLH: But, personally, me, I'm against America going to Vietnam and I have several reasons why I don't think we have any business in Vietnam. First place, I don't think that you can tell me how and clean up my house if your house is you know is nasty. I think we all have to think in terms of cleaning up our own place before we can go and do a job some other place.
10:45 CE: One of the other major issues regarding Asia of course is recognition of China, what they call a Communist China here, admission of China to the United Nations of the Peking government to the Chinese seat in United Nations. Do you have, does the party have a position on that?
FLH: Well we don't have a position on that. But I hear the word "communist" quite often. In fact, I have been called a communist. (…)
Fannie Lou Hamer is one of my heroes. I appreciate everything she did to bring freedom and equality to Black people. She was a very brave, beautiful lady.
"I don't think you can tell me how to clean up my house when your house is nasty"---Fannie Lou Hamer concerning the USA involvement in Vietnam.
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Miss Fanny said she was fighting for human rights not equal rights. As the pace sister sing a song is already done. 💜💪💪
The same platform, universal health care, quality education, decent wages, are the same things the progressive arm of the Democratic party is demanding of the party today. Listening to this audio interview confirms how well the Democratic Party has successfully holding progress for the oppressed. Splitting the Democratic Party - the poor people's party is rising again.
I truly admire Mrs. Fannie lou Hamer.❤❤
OMG... LORD HAVE MERCY.... JESUS OH LORD!!!
Amen hallelujah amen
Monsieur Colin Edwards, British journalist audio interview with Madame Fannie Lou Hamer on 24 sept 1965. Madame Fannie Lou Hamer talks about The Deacons of defense, Monsieur Malcom X, Monsieur Martin Luther King, Madame Septima Clark, and Monsieur James Baldwin.
28:51 CE: What do you feel about the deacons, this is frightening some white people, I can't understand why they don't understand that this is a natural development.
FLH: I think it's one of the greatest things that ever happened. In fact, I admire those people. I respect those people. Because they are doing what I believe every Negro under the heaven feel if he doesn't have the guts to say it.
comment : Deacons for Defense : ua-cam.com/video/Roe5jgOD1Ss/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/d2XUeyWqJL0/v-deo.html
29:18 CE: What do you think of Malcolm X?
FLH : Malcolm X was one of the best friends I ever had. A remarkable man. Oh, he was a great man! In fact, I had invited Malcolm X to come to Mississippi. And he was supposed to come to Mississippi on Monday and was killed that Sunday.
CE: He had belonged to the Muslim organization. Are the Muslim groups making much progress in the south?
FLH: They seem mostly to be in the North. Mostly in the North because a whole lot of things that the Muslims stand for, I don't agree with their policies. But I did respect Malcolm X, and Malcolm X was a great man.
comment : Monsieur Malcom X talks about Madame Fannie Lou Hamer at 16 min and at about 22min: ua-cam.com/video/v3Ffhedw5IY/v-deo.html
31:06 CE: What do the people in your movement think about Dr. Martin Luther King and his approach to this whole problem.?
FLH: Well, I couldn't just say in Mississippi because people have different feelings about Dr. King. (…)
CE: They feel that he's accepting too slow a rate of progress?
FLH: Well, to me, it is somewhat slow. But Dr. King's organization do have some great people like Mrs. Septima P. Clark (1898-1987), that wrote the book Echoes in my Soul, is a great woman.
comment : Madame Septima Clark said “Knowledge can empower marginalized groups in ways that formal legeal equality can’t”: . ua-cam.com/video/yMF8bwY6LkE/v-deo.html
33:38 FLH: “Yes, I think James Baldwin is a great man. I have great respect for James Baldwin.”
comment : James Baldwin said around Oct 1965 at 7 or 8 min: (…) here ua-cam.com/video/Czs_4ZMqFoE/v-deo.html “I have a six-month-nephew upstairs. Finally when the chips are down, I don’t care what you do at all. I’m not gonna let you do anything to him. I’m not going let him grow up the way I grew up (…) You can stand in my way but you’re not gonna stand in his. The party is over.”
Good for her 👍👍
this UPSET ME! COWARRRRRDS COWARDS COWARDS
Subscribed just on your name.
Miss ELLA BAKER & Miss FANNY LOU HAMMER two TuFF WOMAN they are greatly greatly missed the fight still goes on 😢😮❤🎉
Need a movie or something named after her. And I love her name too.
🖤❤️💚✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽🖤❤️💚
❤️Fannie
Alhamdulilah ☝️🤲
“I’ll try to free that person too.”
What will you do to contribute or have you given up
Monsieur Colin Edwards, British journalist audio interview with Madame Fannie Lou Hamer on 24 sept 1965
19:42 testimony of Madame Fannie Lou Hamer
25:33 CE: I suppose it's a naive question, but is there no possibility of you making a civil complaint, or criminal complaint, or whatever it would amount to, against these people for this beating?
FLH: The Justice Department brought a suit against these 5 law officials from Mississippi. And they had the trial in Oxford. And they had every evidence in the world if it ever was going to be any people convicted. (…) They told all of that and nothing has been done. Those same men, I guess, are still wearing their guns.
(…) CE: But the deacons now in the south is armed defense organization, so that you are outside of the control of police officials like this. Why has this not happened? Is it because the white people there are so powerful, that such a rebellion has been impossible?
FLH They are very powerful in the state of Mississippi, but some of the people, I think, is beginning to get where now they just don't care. They are beginning to see if they tried to do anything for themselves, well, they would be killed anyway.
27:33 By the police officials?
FLH By the police officials. 27:36 Because it's nowhere that I would call myself going in the state of Mississippi to be protected by a police official. 'Cause they are worse than a savage.
EC: The federal government isn't able to effectively se- give you security?
FLH: No, because, as you know, the 3 civil rights workers that was murdered in Mississippi, they say their civil rights hadn't been violated. But they are dead.
28:03 And one of their killers is still the sheriff?
FLH: That's right. (…) And Michael Schwerner was a Jewish person. He was one of the greatest men I ever met.
EC: You knew him?
FLH: I knew him very well and his wife, Rita (…)
Comment : Remembering the "Mississippi Burning" murders ua-cam.com/video/5NYG7CQb2ws/v-deo.html Narratives and audio recording: americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_28-bg2h70895r#at_1_s On 22 August 1964 Madame Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), delivered her testimony to the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention about voter suppression and racist law enforcement violence she had faced on 31 Aug 1962 and 9 June 1963. Full (non cut) testimony 8min duration www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fannielouhamercredentialscommittee.htm
My God, she was brilliant! I hate that people are still judged based on lower economical status and race.
If Black People negotiated for that Separate State back then and got it! Would They be suffering as they are today?
ragrago: Yes, absolutely they would! The Black Wall Streets in various parts of the country where large communities of black people had their own economy and banks and community and were relatively thriving and those were of course intentionally attacked and destroyed by white people and government. Similarly, our government has routinely tried to block trade with sovereign brown countries like Cuba.
Wharevs: EXACTLY!! 💯
Worse than a savage🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 deep
This is not slavery WHY CAN’T this be in a History Book. America the LORD has a GREAT JUDGMENT FOR YOU “WOE” WOE UNTO YOU
True American Treasure
Ella Baker to her left.
Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker
You not a communist Mrs. Hamer they Juz call you names ! Rest In Heaven
Hold on a second...……………..Luther King THIS and Luther King that, here is Fannie - Lou - Hamer, and today all you African Americans are talking about is Beyoncé and Kardashian??………….??!!!!. What the fuck is wrong with you all??
Where are all the black women leaders such as Fanni Lou? She is brilliant.
seemed like he just wanted her to say marxist type things lol like worker co ops lol
How is it reverse racism when you are trying to be freee?