Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

Educator and author Omo Moses was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents, Janet and Bob Moses, had moved in 1969. In the ...

Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Hamer is the founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, where she challenged the exclusion of Black voices in the political system and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

"As a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she challenged the exclusion of Black voices in the political system and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act." U.S. House Rep.

WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed ...

Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous) Ms. Hamer, a civil rights activist and the co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, fought for equal representation in politics after being born into ...

Soros has been a frequent target of Republican criticism for financial support of progressive causes and Democratic ...

Mitt Romney who died in 1995; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights leader and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party who died in 1977. A handful of cultural giants rounded out the ...

Four medals are to be awarded posthumously. They are going to Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act ...