Posted by | Ray Cornelius
Award-winning actress Alfre Woodard is looking to bring the story of Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer to the small screen.
Woodard revealed the news during an interview on the red carpet at the 2013 Art Directors Guild Awards. The project will be a 4-hour film, most likely broken up into two parts.
Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader, instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
She was known for her electrifying oratory presence, and for being the woman who said, “She was sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Hamer died on March 14, 1977 at the age of 59.
It is not clear if Woodard will be playing Hamer or if she is producing the project.
RC will keep you posted as this story develops.