Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Arrest Date	9 June 1963
Arrest Location	Winona, Mississippi
Charge	Arrested after returning from voter registration training. Beaten in jail.

Historical Record

Fannie Lou Hamer was beaten so severely in the Winona jail that she suffered permanent kidney damage and a blood clot behind one eye. She survived and testified before the Credentials Committee of the 1964 Democratic National Convention. “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” she said. The world heard her.

Full Profile Coming

The full Good Trouble profile for Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer — including sourced archival photography, expanded biographical history, and complete arrest record — is in development. This page will be updated as the archive grows.

Believe we have an error? Submit a correction.

“We stand on the shoulders of giants. We plant trees in whose shade we will never sit.”

← Return to the Good Trouble archive