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TO REPORT A TRAFFICKING CASE IN THE U.S., CALL THE NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE: (888) 373-7888.
NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING
HOTLINE: (888) 373-7888
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#InContext: Fannie Lou Hamer

#InContext: Fannie Lou Hamer

by | Jan 23, 2023 | #InContext, Our Stories

  Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, to Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the youngest of 20 children. At the young age of six, she began helping her parents in the fields and grew up amid poverty and racial exploitation. She married Perry Hamer in...