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Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: Big Big City City Education Give Go Got Kind Leave Line Mississippi Problems Should Soup Up Us Why Wind

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On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

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I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: After Away Back Because Forced Go Had Know Literacy Plantation Take Test Tried Withdraw You

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They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: Answer Ask Carried Cursed Down Had Know Me Men Questions Tell Try Two Walked Way White Would You

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

~Fannie Lou Hamer

Topics: Office People Run Showing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 6th, 1917

Died: March 14th, 1977

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