Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity. Wikipedia
Fannie Lou Hamer -- sharecropper and voting rights activist was born on this day in 1917 in Ruleville, Mississippi. rsparlourtricks.blogspot.com/2005/10/fannie-lou-hamer.html
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