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“For 300 years, we’ve given them time. And I’ve been tired so long, now I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and we want a change.”
Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s with her courageous and heartfelt resistance to racist voting laws in Mississippi, and her pressure on the Democratic Party to change
Know her story: https://theconversation.com/why-civil-rights-icon-fannie-lou-hamer-was-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-214527
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Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s in part because of her resistance to racist voting laws in Mississippi.The Conversation