Other recipients included former Secretary of State ... the first African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Fannie Lou Hamer, who famously registered Black voters throughout the ...

Former Secretary of State ... to protect and preserve the natural world," the White House added. Fannie Lou Hamer was a women's rights and voting activist who " transformed the struggle for ...

Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

and the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Other recipients included former Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, musician Bono, actor Michael J.

President Biden is awarding the Medal of Freedom to 19 people, including civil rights icons such as the late Fannie Lou Hamer and prominent political leaders such as former Secretary of State ...

Housing and Urban Development secretary and father of former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney who died in 1995; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights leader and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic ...

Kennedy, who served as attorney general; Ashton Carter, who served as Defense secretary; George Romney, who served as governor of Michigan; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist who ...

George Romney, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, former Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Biden’s “political hero,” former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. He described ...

Washington – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... They are going to Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting ...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... Four medals are to be awarded posthumously. They are going to Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the ...

Other recipients of the awards, which were presented Saturday at the White House, are Spanish-American culinary innovator Jose Andres, rock star and activist Bono of U2, former Secretary of ...