In 1964, Carmichael became a full-time field organizer for SNCC in Mississippi. He worked on the Greenwood voting rights project under Bob Moses."Stokely Carmichael", King Encyclopedia, Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Research and Education. Throughout Freedom Summer, he worked with grassroots African-American activists, including Fannie Lou Hamer, whom Carmichael named as one of his personal heroes."American Forum - Stokely Carmichael, Freedom Summer and the Rise of Black Militancy" , Miller Center of the Humanities, University of Virginia. SNCC organizer Joann Gavin wrote that Hamer and Carmichael "understood one another as perhaps no one else could."Joann Gavin, "Kwame Ture-Memories", Civil Rights Movement Archive website.
