Fannie Lou Hamer Park and Multi-Purpose Complex, Ruleville, MS

With the opening of the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden, several local activists and movement veterans decided that a Hamer museum was in order, a proximate place to feature her life and artifacts associated with it. Overseen by Hattie Jordan, the museum also tells a far larger story, placing Hamer’s activism in the larger context of the fight for civil rights in the Delta as well as the state of Mississippi.

(Index card reads) “This typewriter was used by Mr. Charles McLaurin, a civil rights worker with SNCC in 1960. This typewriter was used to type letters and reports for Fannie Lou Hamer. The typewriter was donated to the museum by Mr. Elisha Langdon, a World War II Veteran.”