June 9, 1963: Fannie Lou Hamer was on her way back from Charleston, South Carolina with other activists from a literacy workshop, stopping in Winona, Mississippi, the group was arrested on a false charge and jailed. Once in jail, Hamer and her colleagues were beaten savagely by the police, almost to the point of death. […]
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