Fannie Lou Hamer Story

January 15, 2018, 3:00 p.m.
Phelps Stokes Auditorium

The performance features riveting storytelling, emotionally stirring songs of the Civil Rights era and a graphic video montage celebrating an unsung sheroe of the Civil Rights and Social Justice Movement, whose story became a catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This entertaining production will take the audience on a journey back in time, focusing on the struggle for human dignity and freedom in the U.S. and beyond. Co- sponsored with the Black Cultural Center (BCC), Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education (CGWC), African and African-American Studies, CCC, and the President’s Office. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation.