Fannie Lou Hamer Voting Rights Activist

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• VOTING RIGHTS ACTIVIST & CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER. FANNIE LOU HAMER born in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest of 20 children. Raised by hardworking parents who were sharecroppers, she was no stranger to poverty or hardship. An inspirational speaker and writer, she used her powerful voice to raise the cause of equality and freedom for all blacks in America and became a defining force in the fight against social injustice during the early years of
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• The Black American Experience: African Americans Who Left their Stamp on History
• History
• Black Studies