1963: The Year a Woman in the Cockpit Broke Everyone’s Brain

The Beating That Changed America #blackhistory​

In one of her most powerful speeches, Mississippi civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer reminded the country that the struggle for freedom had come at a heavy cost. Reflecting on the violence and sacrifice Black Americans endured in the fight for civil rights, she said that Black people’s blood was on the American flag. Hamer knew that reality firsthand. After attempting to register to vote in Mississippi in 1962, she was fired from her job, threatened, and brutally beaten while in jail for her a

Beaten for Trying to Vote — She Fought Back

She lost. Then she did it again. #FannieLouHamer #history

This Woman Helped Change Voting Rights Forever