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Every photograph used on FannieLouHamer.info, with its author, date, license and source on Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress or the Mississippi archives.

Every photograph on this site is listed below with its author, date, license and source. The images show places, landscapes and historical documents in Sunflower County and the Mississippi Delta. We do not use portraits of Fannie Lou Hamer or of any other person.

Images marked "No restrictions" come from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History through the Flickr Commons program. Farm Security Administration photographs from the Library of Congress are in the public domain. Other photographs are used under the Creative Commons licenses shown; follow the license if you reuse them. Our page images are resized copies of the originals.

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  1. Lawn, flowering shrubs and a curved concrete walk at the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden in Ruleville, with headstones and a water tower in the background

    Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden.jpg

    The Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden in Ruleville, Mississippi, photographed in July 2008.

    Author
    Steve Bott from Los Angeles, USA
    Date
    2008-07-18
    License
    CC BY 2.0
  2. Roadside sign reading Home of Fannie Lou Hamer beside a field on Highway 49W

    FannieLouHamerSignRuleville.jpg

    The "Home of Fannie Lou Hamer" sign on Highway 49W at Ruleville, photographed in 2017.

    Author
    Chillin662
    Date
    2017-07-30
  3. Ruleville town sign set in a low brick wall behind a trimmed hedge

    Ruleville Welcome Sign.jpg

    The Ruleville welcome sign on Highway 8, photographed in January 2024.

    Author
    Chillin662
    Date
    2024-01-02
    License
    CC BY 4.0
  4. Two old metal water towers labeled Hot and Cold against a pale sky in Ruleville

    Water Towers, Ruleville, Mississippi.jpg

    Ruleville's "Hot" and "Cold" water towers, photographed in 2015.

    Author
    Magnolia677
    Date
    2015
  5. Gray single-story former railroad depot with a hipped roof and a Ruleville name board

    RULEVILLE DEPOT, SUNFLOWER COUNTY, MS.jpg

    The former Illinois Central depot in Ruleville, built in 1930, photographed in 2008.

    Author
    Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD
    Date
    2008-10-03
  6. Black-and-white photograph of the wooden Illinois Central depot at Ruleville in 1976

    IC Depot, 1976, Ruleville, Miss. (30320033341).jpg

    The Illinois Central depot at Ruleville in 1976, from the Railroad Depot Postcard Collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

    Author
    Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Date
    2008-12-11
  7. Black-and-white survey photograph of a brick church building with a columned porch in Ruleville

    Ruleville Methodist Church, Ruleville, Sunflower County, Mississippi (33160784303).jpg

    Ruleville Methodist Church, from the church survey photographs of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. This is a different church from William Chapel.

    Author
    Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Date
    2013-11-06
  8. Red-brick Sunflower County Courthouse in Indianola with a white columned portico and a flagpole

    Sunflower County Courthouse.jpg

    The Sunflower County Courthouse in Indianola, the county seat, photographed in 2009.

    Author
    Jimmy Emerson from Dalton GA
    Date
    2009-08-30
    License
    CC BY 2.0
  9. Flat green farmland in Sunflower County stretching to the horizon under a gray, streaked sky

    Sunflower County, Mississippi.jpg

    Farmland in Sunflower County, Mississippi, photographed in 2015.

    Author
    miketnorton
    Date
    2015-08-20
    License
    CC BY 2.0
  10. Mule-drawn wagon piled with cotton on a sandy track through a cotton field, with workers walking alongside, 1939

    Wagon load of cotton coming out of the field in the evening,... (3109742247).jpg

    A wagon load of cotton leaving the field at Mileston Plantation in the Mississippi Delta, October 1939. Farm Security Administration photograph.

    Author
    Marion Post Wolcott
    Date
    1939-10
    License
    Public domain
  11. Color slide of day laborers, seen at a distance, picking cotton in a tall field near Clarksdale in 1939

    Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta LCCN2017877489.jpg

    Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale in the Mississippi Delta, November 1939. Farm Security Administration color slide.

    Author
    Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
    Date
    1939-11
    License
    Public domain
  12. Hand-lettered broadside headed 1000 Students Wanted for the SNCC Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, announcing a talk by SNCC field secretary Charles Cobb

    1000 students wanted for the SNCC Mississippi Freedom Summer Project (26276560142).jpg

    A hand-lettered broadside recruiting students for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Broadside collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

    Author
    Mississippi Department of Archives and History
    Date
    2015-04-16
  13. Outline map of Mississippi's counties with Sunflower County in the northwest Delta shaded red

    Map of Mississippi highlighting Sunflower County.svg

    Sunflower County, shaded red, in the Mississippi Delta.

    Author
    David Benbennick
    Date
    2006-02-12
    License
    Public domain