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"If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one." -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917 in Montgomery Cty, Miss. Hamer and thousands more Mississippians took one of boldest moves in U.S. history to fight for real democracy in nat'l elections. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fannie-lou-hamer-born/
"Black people know what white people mean when they say 'law and order.'" -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917.
Read profile (ideal for gr 6+) of Hamer with primary docs & interview at @snccdigital here: https://snccdigital.org/people/fannie-lou-hamer/ (In photo below with Ms. Ella Baker & more.)
Read profile (ideal for gr 6+) of Hamer with primary docs & interview at @snccdigital here: https://snccdigital.org/people/fannie-lou-hamer/ (In photo below with Ms. Ella Baker & more.)
“You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” -- Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917.
Read about her fight for voting rights by @KeishaBlain via @smithsonianmag https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie-lou-hamers-dauntless-fight-for-black-americans-right-vote-180975610/ #TeachVotingRights
Read about her fight for voting rights by @KeishaBlain via @smithsonianmag https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie-lou-hamers-dauntless-fight-for-black-americans-right-vote-180975610/ #TeachVotingRights
“Is this America, the land of the free & the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” -- Fannie Lou Hamer asked credentials committee at DNC in Atlantic City. #MFDP Read textbook critique 
https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/sharecroppers-challenged-mississippi-apartheid-lbj-and-the-nation/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/sharecroppers-challenged-mississippi-apartheid-lbj-and-the-nation/
Fannie Lou Hamer was a field secretary for the youth led Civil Rights Movement organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Teach about SNCC with this free downloadable lesson by high school teacher Adam Sanchez. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-sncc
Teachers: Check out this free 3-lesson unit for grades 7+ on voting rights. In lesson 1, students share their understanding of what makes a “qualified” voter, then reconsider their thinking after a close reading of an oral history by Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-voting-rights-struggle/
Learn first hand about SNCC at the SNCC 60th anniversary intergenerational conference ( @SNCC60th) in DC, June 3-5, 2021, organized by SNCC vets who work with @BYP_100, @Dreamdefenders, @NAACP, & more.
Learn more & register here: https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc60
Learn more & register here: https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc60
