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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,647 posts) Mon Aug 31, 2020, 08:26 AM Aug 2020

OTD 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer led 17 volunteers to register to vote in Indianola, Mississippi.

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OTD 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer led 17 volunteers to register to vote in Indianola, Mississippi. They were blocked by way of a discriminatory literacy test, harassed on their way home, stopped by police and fined. That night, Hamer lost her job for daring to register to use her voice.

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OTD 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer led 17 volunteers to register to vote in Indianola, Mississippi. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 OP

"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" (Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964) struggle4progress Aug 2020 #1

struggle4progress

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1. "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" (Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964)

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Mon Aug 31, 2020, 08:37 AM

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