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"I am sick and tired of being ____________ and _____________ ."
What is SICK and TIRED?
Before she became an activist, Mrs. Hamer worked on one of these large southern farms, picking cotton.
What is a plantation/sharecropper's cabin?
Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, Medgar Evers
What is the NAACP?
This is the important paper that you must fill out to legally cast your vote in an election.
What is a registration form or voter registration?
This hero was one of the most famous people who worked for SNCC and helped lead the Freedom Summer project to register thousands of voters in Mississippi.
Who is Bob Moses?
"Nobody's free until ________________ ."
What is everybody is free?
Fannie Lou Hamer worked with this national Civil Rights organization of young people, whose workers were often referred to as "snickers"?
What is SNCC?
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Ella Baker (early staff), and many ministers.
What is the SCLC?
Before 1965, Black citizens in Mississippi often had to pass a difficult __________________ test before they could vote.
What is literacy test?
A business owner in her hometown of Hattiesburg, this hero was known for using her own car to drive people to the courthouse to register and for being a key voice for the MFDP.
Who is Victoria Gray Adams?
"You don't run away from problems. You just _________ them."
What is FACE?
This is the important right that Fannie Lou Hamer was fighting for when she first tried to go down to the courthouse in 1962.
What is the right to vote?
James Farmer, George Houser, Bayard Rustin, and the founders of the Freedom Rides.
What is CORE?
After Fannie Lou Hamer testified, this major federal law was passed in 1965 to end unfair practices like the poll tax and literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
She was a powerful and wise older leader who helped start SNCC and taught young activists that true power comes from ordinary people working together, not from one single leader.
Who is Ella Baker?
"Never to forget where we ___________________ from and always praise the ___________________ that carried us over."
What is CAME and BRIDGES?
Mrs. Hamer helped start this political party to challenge the all-white group at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
What is the MFDP/Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party?
Bob Moses, John Lewis, Diane Nash, and this group was started with the help of Ella Baker.
What is SNCC?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed shortly after the Civil War, said that the right to vote could not be denied based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th/Fifteenth amendment?
Like Fannie Lou Hamer, this hero lost her farm job for trying to register to vote. She went on to become the first Black woman mayor in the state of Mississippi.
Who is Unita Blackwell?
"If I fall, I'll fall five ____________, four _________ __________________ in the fight for freedom."
What is FEET, INCHES, and FORWARD?
To help poor families, Mrs. Hamer started this alliterative co-op that owned pigs and bought land.
What is Freedom Farm?
Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, Bob Moses, and this group united multiple Mississippi civil rights organizations during Freedom Summer.
What is COFO?
After the Voting Rights Act passed, Fannie Lou Hamer's 1965 lawsuit, Hamer v. Campbell, challenged a law that required new voters to pay the __________ _____________ for the two years before they were finally allowed to register.
What is POLL TAX?
This hero was known for using her strong singing voice to raise spirits and money for the Civil Rights Movement, and was the third woman, alongside Fannie Lou Hamer and Victoria Gray, to challenge the election in the U.S. Congress.
Who is Annie Devine?