Fannie Lou Hamer (d 3/14/1977), graduated 4th grade, spent 20 years as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, rose up to be a courageous prophet in the Freedom Stuggle. Evicted from her home for registering to vote, jailed, savagely beaten, but still she persisted.
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In that nonviolent struggle ordinary people became saints and prophets. Inspired by a vision of justice and freedom, sustained by faith, they found the strength to confront their fears and stand up to dogs, fire hoses, clubs, and bombs.
In the ranks of this extraordinary movement Hamer was a rock who did as much as anyone of her time to redeem the promise of the gospel and the ideals of America. “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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