If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
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| Birth: | 6th October, 1917 |
| Death: | 14th March, 1977 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist |
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Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity.
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