What is Transatlantic Reconnection?

An interactive learning platform connecting continental African students with the history, culture, and diaspora narratives of the African American experience.

Historical Figure

Fannie Lou Hamer

1917 – 1977

Sharecropper turned voting rights activist. Co-founded Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964). Testified before Democratic National Convention about voter suppression. Famous for 'I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired' speech.

Civil Rights Voting Rights

Study in Curriculum

Unit 6

The Civil Rights Movement: From Brown to Selma (1954–1965)

The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity

Unit 4.5

Serving and Sacrificing: Black Military Service from Reconstruction to World War II

Black Feminist Political Thought: Wells, Hamer, and Baker as Theorists

Black Women's Leadership & the Civil Rights Movement

The Disfranchisement Machine: How Black Voting Was Eliminated and Why It Matters

Unit 5.5

The Black Female Athlete: Gibson, Rudolph, and the Serena Paradox

Unit 6.5

Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem

Related Places & Museums

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

Jackson, MS

Mississippi's state-operated museum chronicles the stories of ordinary Mississippians who took extraordinary risks during the Civil Rights Movement. E...

Related Figures

Medgar Evers

James Chaney

Andrew Goodman

Michael Schwerner

Key Events

MFDP 1964

Freedom Summer

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