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Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’

  • Written by Marlee Bunch, Staff K-12 Initiatives, Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageFanny Lou Hamer speaks out against Mississippi's racist voting laws on Aug. 8, 1964.Bettmann/Getty Images

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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