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Civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer is remembered by those how worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights.
An African-American sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta, Hamer’s difficulty registering to vote in 1962 led to her career as an outspoken activist, congressional candidate, and fierce fighter for the rights of all.
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