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Fannie Lou Hamer's America

Season 10 Episode 1 | 58m 41s

Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer's America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.

Aired: 02/21/22 | Expires: 03/31/24
Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Funding provided by the MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Extras
California farmworker housing rules force seasonal moves, upending Latinx students' education.
Alaudin Ullah opens up about growing up in Harlem as a Bengali American kid.
Alaudin Ullah talks about his love for hip hop and rejecting his roots when he was growing up.
A family acts to rectify a systemic wrong after a mentally ill loved one's incarceration.
A family acts to rectify a systemic wrong after a mentally ill loved one's incarceration.
Stevie Walker-Webb shares his hopes and fears for incarcerated people with mental illness.
Two brothers, one on the inside, share their hopes and dreams after incarceration.
For 24 hours, Stevie Walker-Webb is in "solitary confinement" to show its inhumanity.
A filmmaker chronicles his journey beyond walls after being incarcerated at San Quentin.
A filmmaker chronicles his journey beyond walls after being incarcerated at San Quentin.
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