American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Words of wisdom.

But I CAN'T do that! No one will pay off my college loans for me. No one will hire me for as much as I want to earn. The previous generation left the world imperfect for me.