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Fannie Lou Hamer - part 2
Date: 9/28/1965Call Number: CE 043Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discusses her life in Mississippi, trying to organize, voting rights. Also describes her attempt to register to vote, arrest & jail - particularly how cops forced other prisoners to beat her under threat of death (they were first made to drink corn whiskey) and despite federal hearings "those same men are still wearing their guns."
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