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Jazz the Professor
@LikeButta3
Listening requires a certain skill set. Knowledge is power. Class is always in session. Come prepared. Very low tolerance for conscientious stupidity.

Mar 14, 2022, 8 tweets

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#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights movement leader & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

“The flag is drenched with our blood”
#History

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights leader & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she repped at the 1964 DNC.

LBJ was afraid of Sister Hamer
#History

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights leader & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

“Some of y’all ain’t gonna like it but I’m just telling the truth”
#History

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, leader in the civil rights movement & co-founder & vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

“America is sick and man is on the critical list”
#History

“We will support people in other countries, giving them millions of dollars, but not doing nuthin’ for their own people”

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer,civil rights leader.
#History

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting, civil & women's rights activist, community organizer & co-founder/vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party

“It’s pretty hard to stand up and pledge allegiance to something we’ve never had”
#History

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting & women's rights activist, community organizer, civil rights leader, co-founder/Vice-Chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against power”
#History

#OTD Fannie Lou Hamer joined the ancestors (Oct 6, 1917–Mar 14, 1977). Voting, civil & women's rights activist, community organizer.

“If there’s gonna be any survival for this country, we have to make democracy a reality for all people, and not just a few”
#History

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