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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.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAlfre Woodard will star as civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in a forthcoming limited series for ABC Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.Woodard is executive producing along with Carl Beverly, Sarah Timbermann, Roderick Spencer and Harry Belafonte, while Gina Belafonte serves as a producer.Hamer rose from sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta to become a driving force in the voting rights movement, a prominent voice for civil rights and