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Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was born October 6,1917, in Montgomery Country, Mississippi. She was the granddaughter of slaves. She was the youngest of 19 brothers and sisters. In 1962, when Fannie was 44 years old, she volunteered for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)to hold a voters registration meeting. She had realized that African-Americans had a constitutional right to vote.The SNCC members asked for volunteers to go to the courthouse to register to vote, when they was there, Fannie was the first to raise her hand and she knew that was a bad decision.She and others went to the courthouse, they were jailed and beaten by the police. Her courageous act got her thrown off the plantation where she was a sharecropper. She also began to receive constant death threats and was even shot at. Still, Fannie could not be discouraged. She became a SNCC Field Secretary and traveled around the country speaking and registering people to vote. At the age 59 she died.

This web site gave me a lot of of information about Fannie Lou Hamer. She made a huge impact to this country and she used the constitution to change the U.S.A.

Site Name:www.ibiblio.com

Name:Editor(s):Adam Pawluk,Scott Griffin,Mark Andrews and Mark Monaco

Date and/or Version Number:Copyright 1998

Name Of Sponsoring Institution:SNCC