[my Mother] Tried So Hard To Make Life Easy For Us. Those Are The Things That Forced Me To Try To Do Something Different And When This Movement Came To Mississippi I Still Feel It Is One Of The Greatest Things That Ever Happened Because Only A Person Living In The State Of Mississippi Knows What It Is Like To Suffer; Knows What It Is Like To Be Hungry; Knows What It Is Like To Have No Clothing To Wear.

-Fannie Lou Hamer

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[my Mother] Tried So Hard To Make

Fannie Lou Hamer

[my Mother] Tried So Hard To Make Life Easy For Us. Those Are The Things That Forced Me To Try To Do Something Different And When This Movement Came To Mississippi I Still Feel It Is One Of The Greatest Things That Ever Happened Because Only A Person Living In The State Of Mississippi Knows What It Is Like To Suffer; Knows What It Is Like To Be Hungry; Knows What It Is Like To Have No Clothing To Wear.

Topic

Mother

Suffering

Trying

After We Testified Before The Credentials Committee In Atlantic City, Their Mississippi Representative Testified Also. He Said I Got 600 Votes But When They Made The Count In Mississippi, I Was Told I Had 388 Votes. So Actually It Is No Telling How Many Votes I Actually Got.

Cities

Atlantic City

Vote