Places
Places and institutions
Ruleville, William Chapel, the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden and statue, Mississippi museums, and the institutions that carry Hamer's name.
Ruleville is a small town in Sunflower County, about ten miles east of Cleveland on U.S. Highway 49W. Most of the places tied to Fannie Lou Hamer's life are within a few blocks of each other there: the church where she heard the call to register, the memorial garden where she is buried, and the statue dedicated in 2012.
This section also covers museums in Mississippi where her story is told, and the institute, foundation and centers that are named for her. We describe them neutrally and link to their own sources; we are not connected to any of them.
Places and institutions
- PlacesRuleville guideA visitor's guide to Ruleville and Sunflower County, Mississippi, with the Hamer sites, Freedom Trail markers, distances, and the history behind them.
- PlacesWilliam Chapel churchThe Ruleville church where Fannie Lou Hamer heard SNCC's call to register in August 1962, why it opened its doors to the movement, and its Freedom Trail marker.
- PlacesMemorial gardenWhere Fannie Lou Hamer is buried, what you will see at the memorial garden in Ruleville, the markers and statue there, and how to visit respectfully.
- PlacesThe statueFacts about the bronze statue of Fannie Lou Hamer dedicated in Ruleville on October 5, 2012: sculptor Brian Hanlon, the pose, the base and the Atlantic City cast.
- PlacesMuseums to visitMuseums in Mississippi and beyond that tell Fannie Lou Hamer's story, from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson to the Amzie Moore House in Cleveland.
- PlacesExhibits and collectionsOnline exhibits, archives and recordings where you can see primary sources about Fannie Lou Hamer, from the SNCC Digital Gateway to the Library of Congress.
- PlacesThe Hamer InstituteWhat the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy is, how it began in 1997 and how it became part of Jackson State University.
- PlacesCenters in her nameCommunity and campus centers that carry Fannie Lou Hamer's name, from a grassroots cultural center in Ruleville to the Black Resource Center at UC Berkeley.
- PlacesCancer FoundationWhat the Fannie Lou Hamer Cancer Foundation is, why it carries her name, the screening and outreach it does in the Delta, and its headquarters in Ruleville.
- PlacesAmzie Moore HouseThe 1941 home of Amzie Moore in Cleveland, Mississippi, where SNCC organizers stayed and planned, now a museum with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker nearby.
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- PlacesRuleville guideA visitor's guide to Ruleville and Sunflower County, Mississippi, with the Hamer sites, Freedom Trail markers, distances, and the history behind them.
- PlacesWilliam Chapel churchThe Ruleville church where Fannie Lou Hamer heard SNCC's call to register in August 1962, why it opened its doors to the movement, and its Freedom Trail marker.
- PlacesMemorial gardenWhere Fannie Lou Hamer is buried, what you will see at the memorial garden in Ruleville, the markers and statue there, and how to visit respectfully.
- PlacesThe statueFacts about the bronze statue of Fannie Lou Hamer dedicated in Ruleville on October 5, 2012: sculptor Brian Hanlon, the pose, the base and the Atlantic City cast.