We picked our top five people we wanted to do our National History Day project on, and we wanted to do it on someone that wasn’t well known. African-American woman are not really well known and honored for our African-American woman and men today. Fannie Lou Hamer was very elegant, successful, demanding, and a goal achiever. As far as conducting our research we went to several libraries’, we checked out the Little Rock museum, and we looked at multiply websites. We wanted to really get in depth with looking at Fannie Lou Hamer’s websites to know how she achieved her main goal and overcame all the trials and tribulations. We also looked at her powerful testimonies, her documentaries, and we even listened to some of her music. We did a primary and secondary source brainstorm worksheet and that made us determined five out of 18 sources that we wanted to get our sources from. Our top three sources out of five that we mainly used were websites, books, and interviews. We selected our presentation based off of how creative we wanted to be on this. In the past few years of doing NHD the trifold boards have always been our first …show more content…
Things are different now because African-Americans can now vote and get equal rights to vote just like everyone else. When Fannie Lou Hamer became a voting rights activist nothing really changed right away, but once people started to notice the work she was doing for the African-American community people started to notice her. I think all groups of people were impacted the same way. Lastly, Fannie Lou Hamer put tighter an organization and traveled to a courthouse in Indianapolis and helped organizations to increase business