Fanny Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain

1963, printed 2015
(American, 1942-)
Image: 32.9 x 22.5 cm (12 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.9 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.)
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Voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer came to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to participate in a voter registration drive. On January 22, 1964, hundreds of people braved a bone-chilling rain to picket the courthouse in a town where not one black person was registered to vote. The registrar, forced by a court injunction against voting discrimination, allowed four people in per hour to fill out registration applications.
Fanny Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain

Fanny Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain

1963, printed 2015

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)

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