By Malaika Jabali· Updated November 4, 2022
Fannie Lou Hamer may be best known for saying “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” while fighting for Black Mississippians’ voting rights in 1964. That same year, she made an impassioned plea at the Democratic National Convention that then-president Lyndon Johnson tried to silence. But his attempt to censor Fannie Lou Hamer only raised her profile.
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