Storm causes power outage on Marco Island. Over 15,000 people on Marco Island were without power for more than seven hours Sunday morning. Violent storm winds Saturday night caused the main transmission line feeding the island to go down, leaving many businesses and homes in the dark.
In 1968 Hamer founded the Freedom Farms Corporation (FFC) a non-profit venture designed to help poor farming families. It also provided social services and grants for education. Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mound Bayou, Mississippi on 14th March 1977.
Hamer went to school through the eighth grade, which was more schooling than many black children had at the time. In 1944, Fannie Lou Townsend married Perry Hamer, whom everyone called âPap,â and they lived on the Marlow plantation outside Ruleville. When Marlow learned that Mrs. Hamer could read and write, he made her the record keeper for the plantation.