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Fannie Lou Hamer, known as the lady who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired," was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of slaves. Her family were sharecroppers - a position not that different from slavery. Hamer had 19 brothers and sisters. She was the youngest of the children
http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/Guides/Hamer/default.htm
Fannie Lou Hammer
Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, DNConvention
I was carried out of that cell into another cell where they had two Negro prisoners. The State Highway Patrolmen ordered the first Negro to take the blackjack. The first Negro prisoner ordered me, by orders from the State Highway Patrolman, for me to lay down on a bunk bed on my face. And I laid on my face, the first Negro began to beat me. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fannielouhamercredentialscommittee.htm
Fannie Lou Hammer BIO
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/hamer.html
http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/Guides/Hamer/default.htm
Fannie Lou Hammer
Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, DNConvention
I was carried out of that cell into another cell where they had two Negro prisoners. The State Highway Patrolmen ordered the first Negro to take the blackjack. The first Negro prisoner ordered me, by orders from the State Highway Patrolman, for me to lay down on a bunk bed on my face. And I laid on my face, the first Negro began to beat me. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fannielouhamercredentialscommittee.htm
Fannie Lou Hammer BIO
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/hamer.html