Explore historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression & for voting rights in the 3-lesson unit, “Who Gets to Vote?” Includes an oral history interview w/ Fannie Lou Hamer.
Hamer was 45 the 1st time she tried to register to vote in Miss.
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Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.
#OTD in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested in Mississippi for riding in the “white” section of a bus. In jail, she was brutally beaten. She never stopped fighting for voting rights. #TheMarchContinues
