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Fannie Lou Hamer "Kept President Johnson Up at Night” — @queenie4rmnola link.medium.com/Cvt2CdeInsb

Want to know why?

"President Lyndon B. Johnson was terrified of her, terrified of her appeal she would make in 1964 before the Democratic National Committee’s credentials panel on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Brown, 2020)."

"White moderates will often proclaim that they support Black people and respect them, but that change is too risky, inappropriate, and unconventional. As a credit to her generation, Mrs. Hamer refused to buckle under the weight of oppression or others’ apathy — she persisted."

President Johnson " efforts to silence her speech infamously backfired. Her address is considered one of the most transformative of the Civil Rights Era."



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