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I was a civil rights worker in Mississippi 1n 1964-1965. My first three nights in Missippi were in the Hamer home in Ruleville. She was certainly a dynamic woman, but so were hundreds of others who probably will never make it into history books. Fannie Lou was more than a sharecropper - she was head bookkeeper for the Eastland Plantation. Senator Eastland's family plantation. When she went to try to register to vote (she didn't succeed) her home and the homes of others that went with her were shot up that night. And the next day she was fired from her bookkeeper job. The summer of 64 Fannie Lou made appearances around the state at Freedom Democratic Party meetings making speeches. The FDP didn't succeed in replacing the Mississippi Democratic Party delegates at the Democratic Party convention, but they did succeed in preventing the delegates from voting at the convention.
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