Fannie Lou Hamer
The Unbreakable Voice of the Mississippi Delta
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I was born the last of twenty children into the cotton rows of Mississippi, and I wore that dirt on my hands till the day I died. I stood in churches, in fields, and once on national TV to say what they didn’t want said: Black folks deserve to vote, to eat, to live free. I got fired, jailed, and beaten for it. But I still sang, still spoke, still stood — even with a limp and a damaged kidney. That’s just who I am.
What I'm Into: This Little Light of Mine, sharecropper sermons, SNCC meetings, Mississippi sunsets, freedom songs
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