Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977)
"Nobody's free until everybody's free"
Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers and she began working the fields when she was only 6 years old. She continued to be a share cropper after her 1944 marriage to Perry "Pap" Hamer. In 1962, she attended a protest meeting and met civil rights activists who encouraged blacks and register to vote, and soon became active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which fought racial segregation and injustice in the South. During the course of her activist career, Hamer was threatened, arrested, beaten, and shot at. She was severely injured in 1963 in Winona, Mississippi jail when she and two other activists were taken in by police after attending a training workshop. Hamer was beaten so badly that she suffered permanent kidney damage. In 1964, she helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and ran for Congress in Mississippi in 1965. Fannie also helped to establish the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971. Hamer died in 1977 from breast cancer.
The Drink:
Brainstorm:
1.5 oz Irish whiskey
1.5 oz dry vermouth
.25 oz benedictine
lemon twist
Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 4.5
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments: PoC is a 3 if you dial down the vermouth just a bit.
From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster
"Nobody's free until everybody's free"
Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers and she began working the fields when she was only 6 years old. She continued to be a share cropper after her 1944 marriage to Perry "Pap" Hamer. In 1962, she attended a protest meeting and met civil rights activists who encouraged blacks and register to vote, and soon became active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which fought racial segregation and injustice in the South. During the course of her activist career, Hamer was threatened, arrested, beaten, and shot at. She was severely injured in 1963 in Winona, Mississippi jail when she and two other activists were taken in by police after attending a training workshop. Hamer was beaten so badly that she suffered permanent kidney damage. In 1964, she helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and ran for Congress in Mississippi in 1965. Fannie also helped to establish the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971. Hamer died in 1977 from breast cancer.
The Drink:
Brainstorm:
1.5 oz Irish whiskey
1.5 oz dry vermouth
.25 oz benedictine
lemon twist
Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 4.5
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments: PoC is a 3 if you dial down the vermouth just a bit.
From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster
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