tayarijones:“If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.&rd

tayarijones:“If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.” Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer died on this day in 1977“Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi’s Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.”More info: Fannie Lou Hamer on Wikipedia -- source link
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