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Fannie Lou Hamer was a forty-two-year-old plantation worker in Sunflower County, in the Mississippi Delta. She joined a voter registration campaign in 1962 and became a leader of SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party (MFDP). In this oral history, Mrs. Hamer describes how she came into the movement and the retribution she faced for attempting to register to vote.
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Gosse, V. (2005). Fannie Lou Hamer. In: The Movements of the New Left, 1950–1975. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04781-6_15
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