Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi to Jim and Ella Townsend.

She worked on a farm as a sharecropper for 18 years and her parents, too, were sharecroppers.

Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi to Jim and Ella Townsend. She worked on a farm as a sharecropper for 18 years and her parents, too, were sharecroppers.

Fannie Lou Hamer: "Is This America?"

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