Fannie Lou Hamer
Mississippi Delta sharecropper turned voting-rights organizer whose 1964 DNC speech forced national TV coverage of Jim Crow violence.
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Born in Montgomery County, Mississippi in 1917. Sterilized without consent during a 1961 hospital visit and beaten in a Winona jail for organizing voter registration. Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that challenged the all-white state delegation at the 1964 convention.
Location
Ruleville, MS, USA
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