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Fannie Lou Hamer

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I’m showing the people that a Negro can run for office.

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It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.

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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

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April 27, 2024

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

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April 27, 2024

It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.

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