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Fannie Lou Hamer
Date: 9/28/1965Call Number: CD 699Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discusses conditions in Mississippi, role of the police & how the federal government won't protect peoples civil rights. Remembers Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner murders, admires the Deacons for Defense, Malcolm X (who was to have come to Mississippi the day after his assassination). Comments on the Muslim movement, how she doesn't agree with separation, suggests that Martin Luther King and the SCLC were too middle class, is hopeful about youth and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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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