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Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 5 P21 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 188 HAMER FANNIE LOU TOWNSEND for his capture by the U.S. government and 1 million by the Serbian government. The tribunal expects to try Karadzic in early 2012 and believes it will complete its final trials and appellate work sometime in 2013. FURTHER READINGS International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ICTY www.icty.org accessed September 23 2009 . The Lesson of Slobodan Milosevic s Trial and Tribulation. 2003. Economist 366. Wald Patricia M. 2002. Punishment of War Crimes by International Tribunals. Social Research 69. CROSS REFERENCES Arbitration International Court of Justice International Law Jurisdiction. V HAMER FANNIE LOU TOWNSEND fannie lou hamer worked for voter registration for African Americans in the U.S. South and helped establish the Mississippi Freedom democratic party MFDP which successfully challenged the all-white Democratic party in Mississippi. Hamer was born October 6 1917 in Montgomery County Mississippi. She was the twentieth and youngest child of Jim Townsend and Lou Ella Townsend who were sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. Hamer grew up in a tar paper shack and slept on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She first went into the cotton fields to work when she was six years old picking thirty pounds of cotton a week. By the time she was 13 years old Hamer was picking 200 to 300 pounds of cotton each week. Because of her family s poverty she was forced to end her formal education after the sixth grade. In 1944 when she was 27 Hamer married Perry Pap Hamer a sharecropper on a nearby plantation owned by the Marlowe family near Ruleville Mississippi. Hamer spent the next 18 years working in the fields chopping cotton. Her husband also ran a small saloon and they made liquor to sell. In August 1962 Hamer attended a meeting sponsored by the southern Christian leadership conference SCLC and the student nonviolent coordinating committee SNCC pronounced Snick . The SCLC was founded in 1957 by a group of black ministers led by .
