Today we are discussing the story of Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie was an impactful civil rights activist. You might be thinking now, wait a minute, what does that have to do with STEM? Well she also founded Freedom Farms, which was a local agricultural community that provided food, housing and education to her local people who were struggling to survive, especially because of practices like sharecropping, as well as retaliations by landowners for trying to pursue their right to vote. She has been extremely influential in community outreach and hence well deserves a spot in the STEMinism world. Happy listening folks :)

References
White, M. M. (2018). Freedom farmers: agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement. UNC Press Books.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/

 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie-lou-hamers-dauntless-fight-for-black-americans-right-vote-180975610/