Civil and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer will be getting the biopic treatment. Common is set to produce a feature about the life of Hamer, titledGod’s Long Summer, which will follow Hamer's rise from oppressive plantation sharecropping systemin 1962 Mississippi where at 44 years of age, according to the project's synopsis "she fought against the Southern political establishment, systemic racism and misogyny by exercising her right to vote and fighting for the rights of others.
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