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.
Roger Leir, born 1935, died March 14 2014. Now listen to this week's obituaries podcast in which we talk to Jack Perry, who is among the last of the Guinea Pigs - burned WWII airmen operated on by Archie McIndoe.