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.
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.
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