Dorie Ladner
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Dorie Ann Ladner was an American civil rights activist and social worker. Along with her sister Joyce, she was a leading community organizer in Mississippi for the National Association for the Advance
Ladner in 2015
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she rep
Dorie Ladner
…she was the SNCC project director in Natchez. In Indianola, Mississippi, one of the people she assisted in becoming a voter was community organizer Fannie Lou Hamer. Ladner had lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1974, where she was a social worker, counseling patients in the emergency rooms and the rape crisis…
A sign honoring Fannie Lou Hamer for her work in Ruleville, Mississippi
Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden in Ruleville, Mississippi