Gamechanger!
I’m sending this to twitter cuz you can’t stress it enough!Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. —Fannie Lou Hamer
In 1962, when Hamer was 44 years old, SNCC volunteers came to town and held a voter registration meeting. She was surprised to learn that African-Americans actually had a constitutional right to vote. When the SNCC members asked for volunteers to go to the courthouse to register to vote, Hamer was the first to raise her hand. This was a dangerous decision. She later reflected, “The only thing they could do to me was to kill me, and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”
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art: painting by Robert Shetterly
“Sick and tired of being sick and tired”
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