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.
Mab Segrest. Mab (Mabelle Massey) Segrest (born February 20, 1949) is an American feminist writer and activist. Segrest is best known for her 1994 autobiographical work Memoir of a Race Traitor. In the 1970s, Segrest moved to North Carolina to attend Duke University, where she earned her PhD in English literature in 1979.