Fannie Lou Hamer
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- 1917
- TOO YELLOW
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- Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi to parents Lou Ella and James Townsend.
- mandatory integrated state delegations!!!
- Hamer for house of rep
- Fannie Lou Hamer became a SNCC organizer and on August 31, 1962 she led 17 voters to register to vote. They were unfairly denied and harassed on their way home, when the police stopped their bus for being "too yellow".
- 1964
- 1965
- I will be running for Misisipi house of representitave
- In June 1963, Hamer and several other black women were arrested for sitting in a "whites only" bus station restaurant. At the jail house her and the other women were brutally beaten leaving them with lifelong injuries.
- In 1964, Hamer founded the MFDP. That year Hamer and other members went to the Democratic National Convention. Hamer spoke at the convention but the speech wasn't aired on television until years later.
- In 1964 Hamer announced her candidacy for the Mississippi house of Representatives, but was unfortunately barred from the ballot. In 1965 Hamer became one of the the first Black women to stand in the U.S. Congress when they unsuccessfully protested the Mississippi House election.
- On March 14, 1977 Hamer sadly died of breast cancer at Taborian Hospital at the age of 59.
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