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After a while, Hamer said, she saw a friend pass her cell. Hamer was beaten, too, and sustained injuries that left her with lifelong injuries to her eyes, kidneys and legs. The experience also ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Sick and tired. Born on Oct. 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, Hamer was the 20th and last child of sharecroppers Lou Ella and James Townsend. She began picking cotton at the age of 6, and she would be forced to leave school shortly afterward to help her family eke out a living.
Fannie Lou Hamer - "Im Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" Fannie Lou Hamer - "Until I am Free You are Not Free Either" Fannie Lou Hamer - "We're On Our Way"
Nothing but death can stop me. from marching out a jail cell still a free woman. She meant. Nothing but death can stop me from running for Congress. She meant. No black jack beating will stop my feet from working. & my heart from swelling. & my mouth from praying. She meant.
Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed a nation’s perspective on democracy. Hamer became involved in the civil rights movement when she volunteered to attempt to register to vote in 1962. By then, 45 years old and a mother, Hamer lost her job and continually risked her life because of her civil rights activism.
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.
Feb 21, 2009 · The group’s manager said they are expressing the “perpetual pain and rage of Black people in the words of the great Fannie Lou Hamer: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired!” Fannie Lou Hamer spoke those words often as she diligently campaigned for equal rights for everyone during the 1960s and 70s, enduring beatings, jailing and ...
