Lopi LaRoe Fannie Lou Hamer

Lopi LaRoe

Fannie Lou Hamer
Oil on Board
4 ½ “ X 4 ½ “
2006

She was born in 1917 the youngest of 19 children into a family of sharecroppers. She entered the civil rights movement in 1962 when she was one of the first to volunteer to register to vote despite aggressive intimidation techniques employed by the local government and the KKK including loss of jobs, beatings and lynching. She became known for her ability to uplift the spirits of those around her by singing hymns. While traveling with a group of activists in the summer of 1963 to a SNCC conference, they were arrested on false charges and put in jail in Winona, Mississippi where they were brutally beaten almost to the point of death by the white jailers. Released after 3 days without charges it took her months to recover. She was famous for coining the phrase: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Fannie Lou Hamer
Oil on Board
4 ½ “ X 4 ½ “
2006

She was born in 1917 the youngest of 19 children into a family of sharecroppers. She entered the civil rights movement in 1962 when she was one of the first to volunteer to register to vote despite aggressive intimidation techniques employed by the local government and the KKK including loss of jobs, beatings and lynching. She became known for her ability to uplift the spirits of those around her by singing hymns. While traveling with a group of activists in the summer of 1963 to a SNCC conference, they were arrested on false charges and put in jail in Winona, Mississippi where they were brutally beaten almost to the point of death by the white jailers. Released after 3 days without charges it took her months to recover. She was famous for coining the phrase: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."