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The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
Today she is the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection ... Some names have become well known, like Fannie Lou Hamer, but others deserve to be. Two rural activists ...
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Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.
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Martin, Malcolm and Medgar: the 3 M’s we’re not teaching
With Black History Month in February and King’s birthday holiday in January ... Washington or Marcus Garvey or Harriet Tubman or Fannie Lou Hamer, and other major players and contributors ...