Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’

Marlee Bunch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Conversation
Posted 3/27/24

It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s. …

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