Friday, March 19, 2010

Fannie Lou Hamer




"what was the point of being scared?The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember"

What this qoute means to me is that she couldn't be more scared than she was. She lived almost her whole live scared. She suffered from threats and violence because she wanted a change in the governmet. Obviously the whites hated her because she would stand up for her people. She encouraged African Americans' to speak up for their rights. She has been through a lot and the worsest she expected from it was death. She would have really bad beatings and phone calls threating her but she never stopped.

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