#OTD 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10661/fannie-lou-hamer-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon