Historical Marker
Fannie Lou Hamer
Historical marker location:
Atlantic City, New Jersey
( Marker is on Boardwalk just west of South Mississippi Avenue, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2020
Jim Crow Grounded in Atlantic City.
The first recorded instance of a submarine attack on a ship occurred off the coast of New Jersey during the American Civil War. On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank the Union ship USS Housatonic near Charleston, South Carolina, while on its way from New Jersey.