Civil rights crusader’s life recalled in new Palo Alto musical

Meika Ejiasi/TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Greta Oglesby stars as civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s new production, “Fannie.”

Fannie Lou Hamer was a force to be reckoned with. A tireless crusader for civil rights, she was harassed, threatened, jailed and beaten for trying to exercise her legal right to vote in Mississippi in the early ’60s. She even ran for Senate in 1964 in a party she co-founded.

Now TheatreWorks Silicon Valley celebrates Hamer’s remarkable life and work in playwright Cheryl L. West’s one-woman show “Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.”

“She came from being a sharecropper in

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