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Fannie Lou Hamer: White Americans today...

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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake. . . . they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

Source: In Words to Make My Dream Children Live, by Deirdre Mullane, 1995.
-- Fannie Lou Hamer, (Oct 6 1917-1977), US activist; She was a Mississippi sharecropper and organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Party, which challenged the white domination of the Democratic Party.


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