CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Fannie Lou Hamer
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- Thursday, 06 Jan, 2022
In the 1960s, this daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers was threatened for trying to register to vote, and jailed and beaten for sitting in a whites-only café. She went on to conduct successful voter-registration drives, and to integrate Mississippi's delegation to the 1968 Democratic convention.
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