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FANIE LOU HAMER - Coggle Diagram
FANIE LOU
HAMER
ADULT
LIFE
Went in for an operation and involuntarily sterilized.
Went to jail for protesting voter supression.
Got pulled over in a bus that was "too yellow".
Beat in jail and permanently injured.
Fought for voting rights for blacks.
Ran for president.
Got kicked off plantation after registering to vote.
In National Women's Hall of Fame
Married Perry Hamer 1944
Given honorary Doctorate and degrees from colleges.
"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
CHILDHOOD
& FAMILY
Picked cotton for $1
Was a record keeper for plantation.
Dropped out of school at age 12.
Discovered the plantation was cheating sharecroppers out of money.
Parents were sharecroppers.
Saw sharecropper lynched when she was 8.
BIRTH &
DEATH
Died from cancer.
59 years old
Died March 14th, 1977 in Missippi
Born Oct 6, 1917 in Mississippi
Youngest of 20 kids.