Meet Fanny Lou Hamer
BHM....Day 24 Icon of the Civil Rights Movement
“We been waitin' all our lives, and still gettin' killed, still gettin' hung, still gettin' beat to death. Now we're tired waitin'!”
“I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared—but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do th…
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