Written on a stone memorial in the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden are the words: Fannie Lou Hamer Voting and Civil Rights Pioneer 1962 Joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and became a Field Secretary. 1963 Severely beaten while in Winona, Mississippi when she and other civil rights workers were returning from an SCLC Citizen's Training Conference. Became one of the first Black persons to register to vote in Sunflower County. Ran for congress in the Second Congressional District. 1964 A founding member Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDC) and led the MFDC challenge before the National Democratic Party Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 1968 Founder of the Freedom Farms Corporation (FFC). 1970 Founder of the Fannie Lou Hamer Day Car Center. 1971 Became a member of the Policy Counsel. 1974 She was named the board of Trustees of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. On the base of the stone monument is a quote from Ms. Hamer. "I guess if I'd had any sense I'd had been scared but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me. And it seemed they'd been trying to do that a little at a time since I could remember."
PICTURES: Top Row L: Fannie Lou Hamer. Top Row R: Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden. Second Row L: Grave of Fannie Lou Hamer. Second Row R: Fannie Lou Hamer's husband Perry "Pap" Hamer. Video: Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
INTERRED: Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden, Fanie Lou Hamer Drive, Ruleville, Mississippi 38771 SUBMITTED: December 23, 2008. Pictures taken December 20, 2008.
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