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Leuchtag: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Zmag Article, July, 01 2008 Alice Leuchtag
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The American civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. The youngest of 20 children of Jim and Lou Ella Townsend, Fannie Lou was a year old when she contracted polio, which left her with a l...