Student Volunteers Sing with Fannie Lou Hamer, June 1964. Photograph by George R. Hoxie. Fannie Lou Hamer sings with Freedom Summer volunteers outside of Western College's Clawson Hall. George R. Hoxie Photograph Collection at the Smith Library of Regional History.

Fannie Lou Hamer Speaking in Atlantic City, 22 August 1964. Fannie Lou Hamer testifies to the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention. As a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Hamer and others asked to be seated instead of Mississippi's all white delegation. Bettman/Bettman Collection. Photograph via Getty Images.

Singing During Orientation, June 1964. Photograph by Herbert Randall. SNCC staff lead a large group of volunteers in singing Freedom Songs in Presser Hall during the second Freedom Summer orientation session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio. Fannie Lou Hamer stands in front of the audience and to her right is Charles Neblett, a Freedom Singer. The Reverend Dr. Vincent Harding is standing to the left. M351 Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, Historical Manuscripts, The University of Southern Mississippi.

Fannie Lou Hamer, 2004. Portrait by Robert Shetterly. Courtesy of Americans Who Tell the Truth, www.americanswhotellthetruth.org.