Fannie Lou Hamer would have turned 100 this year. A civil rights activist who famously stormed Mississippis all-white delegation at the Democratic conference in Atlantic City during 1964’s Freedom Summer,Hamer also organized voter registration drives in the Magnolia state, educating black people approximately their constitutional rights. The Hechinger Report recently wrote approximately efforts to […]The post OPINION: Fannie Lou Hamer survived a prison beating, or taught black people their rights and stood up to a president appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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