Fannie Lou Haler Annotated Bibliography

Hamer was the youngest of 20 children to sharecroppers, James Lee and Lou Ella Townsend. Her family did not have much money as did many Negroes in the south. Hamer went to school until she turned 12 because she had to earn money for her family, so she picked cotton daily.Years later Hamer married Perry Hamer or "Pap" and moved on to the plantation that he was working, as a timekeeper. They had adopted two girls when they found out that Hamer could not have children because she had a hysterectomy without her knowledge or consent as did many Negroe women in the

Bessie was born April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a part time Baptist preacher, William Smith, and his wife Laura. The family was large and poor. Soon after she was born her father died. Laura lived until Bessie was only nine years old. The remaining children had to learn to take care of themselves. Her sister Viola then raised her. But it was her oldest brother,

"If the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question American. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hook because of our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?" Fannie Lou Hammer before the Democratic National Convention, 1964. Fannie Lou Hamer is best known for her involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC). The SNCC was at the head of the American voter registration drives of the 1960's. Hamer was a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Freedom Party (MFDP), which ultimately succeeded in electing many blacks to national office in the state of Mississippi.

On September 14, 1879 Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. Although Sanger had ten siblings, Anne, her mother, had numerous of miscarriages. Sanger supposed that her mother’s pregnancies affected her health and played a part of her early death.

Mrs. Bessie Vanburen was born in July 1816 to Mary and David Windburn. She grew up in the small town of Mcbee, South Carolina, where Bessie’s father was a poor dirt farmer, and her mother an underpaid seamstress. Bessie attended school in her small town, and as she approached her sixteenth birthday, a new teacher came to town.

She was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. Her parents names were Charlie and Dorothy jemison. Charlie was a roofer, carpenter, and maintenance supervisor. Dorothy was an elementary school teacher. Mae was the youngest of three children. Her oldest sibling Charles was a real estate agent and Ada, the middle sibling, was a child psychiatrist. All in all they were a very successful family.

Bessie’s father, George Coleman, moved his family to Waxahachie, Texas, where he bought a quarter-acre of land and built a three-room house where two more daughters of his were born. In 1901 he left his family to go back to Oklahoma. Her mother decided to stay in Waxahachie to raise her family as best as she could. To help her mother Bessie and her siblings started picking cotton from late November into December of every year. When the girls were old enough they helped with the washing that their mother took to make ends meet. (bessiecoleman.org)

Bessie Smith was the daughter of Laura and William Smith was a Part time Baptist Preacher. For smith it was hard her father pass before she could even remember Him. By the time she was nine she had lost her mother .Bessie and her brother Andrew

One of the people that was born in West Virginia is Nancy hanks. She is the mother of Abraham Lincoln. She was born February 5, 1784. She got married June 12, 1806. There first kid was born on February 10, 1807. Her name was Sarah. A couple years later she had a boy. His name was Abraham Lincoln. He was born February 12, 1809. She died October 5,

Bessie Vanburen was from a little town called Ashville, located in the middle of South Carolina. Although, they were poor Bessie and her husband Paul made ends meet. Their kids were the age four and six. During this century they didn’t have schools. So she home schooled both of her kids, while her husband was out looking for a well-paying job.

She was a poor tobacco farmer and mother of five, born in southern Virginia in 1920.

Her mother wasn’t fit to take care of so many kids because of her being sick and not being able to support. So she sent the kids to a family friend that adopted the kids and they became indentured servants and worked on the farm. Then when she was older she married Benjamin Gannet Gilbert Jr. They had had 4 children one boy and three girls. Their names are Bradford Gilbert, Mary Gilbert Gray, and Susan Baker Sherpred.

Ruby Dee was alive up until June 11, 2014 but, the day she was born on was October 27, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio but she grew up in Harlem. Ruby's parents, Gladys Hightower and Marshall Wallace only had one child and that was ruby. Ruby's real name was actually Ruby Ann Wallace but she change it when she married her first husband Frankie Dee Brown but soon after she divorced after five years and kept his last name. When she got older, she married Ossie Davis and soon after started having children, Nora day, Guy Davis, Hasna Davis.

His father died just before his birth, March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina. As the third child, all boys, his mother went to live with her sister and her family in order to survive.

At age five, Billie Jean King knew she was going to do something wonderful when she grew up. Eventually, she did do something great by making an immense difference in the equality for women in sports. Billie Jean King was a women’s tennis player who fought for equality for women in the athletic world. She was an advocate for women’s rights in sports by working for women to have equal opportunities as men in athletics. Billie Jean King had a profound effect in the equality for women in sports.