Fifty-six years ago this week, Fannie Lou Hamer participated in a sit-in at the segregated Winona, Miss., bus terminal. After her arrest, Hamer was beaten to near-death at the county jail, never fully recovering from the attack. Watch the full story: https://comca.st/2K975hn | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
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60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer gave a powerful testimony at the #DNC. Telling the thousands of people in the crowd about how she was targeted, jailed, and beaten in jail for attempting to vote in Mississippi. Today Vice President Kamala Harris will take the stage at the DNC with the same spirit of Hamer 60 years later with the same spirit of freedom and democracy in her heart and on her mind. #FannieLouHamer #DemocraticFreedomParty #FreedomSummer #DNC #DemocraticNationalConvention | BlackPAC
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Full video on YouTube. Link in bio — Fannie Lou Hamer gripped the nation with her televised testimony of being forced from her home and brutally beaten (suffering permanent kidney damage) for attempting to exercise her constitutional right to vote. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” she asked the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jer
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In the summer of 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper from Mississippi, took a bold step that was fraught with danger—she attempted to register to vote. At that time, in the Deep South, this was not just a civic duty but an act of defiance against entrenched racial segregation and oppression. Hamer was traveling back from a voter registration workshop when she was arrested and jailed by the local police. Inside the jail, she was subjected to a horrific beating orchestrated by officers and carr
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When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly how she wanted to spend her life — fighting for every Black American's right to have a voice. Watch season 2 of #SeeHer Story, where we've partnered with Katie Couric and SeeHer to celebrate female trailblazers like Hamer. | People
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#BlackHistoryNow is about lifting as we climb. 🗳️ Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements. She led voting drives, helped organize Freedom Summer, and co-founded both the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the National Women’s Political Caucus. To learn more about Hamer's harrowing fight for voting rights, check out this clip from She the People: Votes for Women. http://bit.ly/31Mo3bR #BlackHistoryMatters | Smithsonian Channel
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