President Biden celebrated 19 recipients, with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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The ceremony took place inside the White House East Room, where Biden noted President Lincoln met and Frederick Douglass ...

Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the ... who did not attend the event; retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball legend and businessman Earvin ...

Taking place at the White House on Saturday, Washington and Johnson attended in person to receive the prestigious award while Hamer’s niece Doris Hamer Richardson appeared to accept the ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

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Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.