{"id":96,"date":"2022-10-27T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/?p=96"},"modified":"2022-11-08T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:46:48","slug":"jerome-smith-looks-at-bullet-holes-in-fannie-lou-hamers-door-steve-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/2022\/10\/jerome-smith-looks-at-bullet-holes-in-fannie-lou-hamers-door-steve-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerome Smith Looks at Bullet Holes in Fannie Lou Hamer&#8217;s Door"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fannie Lou Hamer was no stranger to intimidation and violence by white Mississippians. In the summer of 1962, Hamer was fired from her job as a bookkeeper at a plantation for trying to register to vote. She was forced to move out of her home on the plantation and moved in with some friends. Just days later, she found 16 bullet holes in the front door of the home where she was staying. A year after the 1962 shooting, Steve Schapiro captured the result of such violence when Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) activist Jerome Smith was inspecting bullet holes in Fannie Lou Hamer\u2019s home in Ruleville, MS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/10\/2019.23.13-1-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/10\/2019.23.13-1-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/10\/2019.23.13-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/10\/2019.23.13-1-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/10\/2019.23.13-1.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022)<br><em>Jerome Smith Looks at Bullet Holes in Fannie Lou Hamer&#8217;s Door<\/em>, 1963<br>Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 inches<br>Partial Gift of Stephen Schapiro and Partial Purchase by Miami University Art Museum with contributions from the Kezur Endowment Fund<br>2019.23.13<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Fannie Lou Hamer was no stranger to intimidation and violence by white Mississippians. In the summer of 1962, Hamer was fired from her job as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/2022\/10\/jerome-smith-looks-at-bullet-holes-in-fannie-lou-hamers-door-steve-shapiro\/\" title=\"Jerome Smith Looks at Bullet Holes in Fannie Lou Hamer&#8217;s Door\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6691,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1963incontext","category-photographycatalog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}