Comforting your mind, body and soul was the passion of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Southern gospel singing civil rights activist. Hamer was the youngest of 20 children in a sharecropping family in Mississippi and although she grew up as a poor, uneducated Black woman, she showed the world that a person doesn't need fancy credentials to inspire change in others! Her voice was not only powerful when speaking, her gospel voice was the comfort that was needed. Her charismatic personality was even noticed by the President of the United States. In the mid-1960s, when activists launched voter registration drives, they recruited Hamer to help out. But she would pay a hefty price for her activism. She was fired from her job for attempting to register to vote. She was also beaten, arrested, and subjected to constant death threats. Yet seasoned civil rights workers were impressed with her courage. Hamer co-founded a new political party in Mississippi as part of her work to desegregate the state...