President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th Mississippi recipient.

President Joe Biden awarded Mississippian Fannie Lou Hamer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hamer was a founder of the ...

Robert F. Kennedy, public science educator Bill Nye, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that can be awarded ...

President Joe Biden, center, prepares to present the Presidential Medal ... was posthumously awarded her Medal of Freedom, which was accepted by Doris Hamer Richardson, a relative.

Denzel Washington joined 17 other honorees in receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House over the weekend.

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.

niece of late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom on her behalf from U.S. President Joe Biden in the East Room at the White House on January 4 ...

President Joe Biden, right, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom ... and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting ...

Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Lionel Messi and Bono are among 19 people President Biden is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to nineteen individuals across politics, sports, entertainment, science, and advocacy in a ceremony at the White House. Recipients ...

Related: Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention ... Last year, Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people, including the late Medgar Evers, House Speaker Emerita ...