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Fannie Lou Hamer

American civil rights activist (1917–1977).

Born October 6th, 1917 in Montgomery County. [ref]

Died March 14th, 1977 at 59 years old in Mound Bayou (heart failure). [ref]

Occupations
autobiographer, political activist, politician, sharecropper
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