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When was Fannie Lou Hamer Born
October 6,1917
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Did Fannie Lou Hamer run for congress?If so what state? If so was she victorious?
She ran for congress in Mississippi, and she was unsuccessful.
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What kind of meeting did Fannie Lou Hamer attend in 1962?
A protest meeting
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What state did majority of Fannie Lou Hamer work take place in?
Mississippi
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Who is Shirley Chisholm?

Became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968 and the first Black candidate to run for a major-party presidential nomination in 1972.

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Where was Fannie Lou Hamer born?
Montgomery County, Mississippi
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What was the name of the organization that Fannie Lou Hamer was apart of to help African American voter registration?
Freedom Sumer
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What two groups sponsored the meeting that Fannie Lou Hamer in 1962
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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What happened to Fannie Lou Hamer when she was in Winona, Mississippi?

She was arrested.

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Who is Ruby Bridges?

An American civil rights activist who, at just six years old, became a monumental symbol of the civil rights movement. On November 14, 1960, she became the first African American child to integrate a formerly all-white public elementary school in the American South.

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What did her parents do for a living?
Sharecropping
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What does the SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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What job did Fannie Lou Hamer apply for as a part of the SNCC
Secretary
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Where was Fannie Lou's Freedom Farm located?

Sunflower County, Mississippi 

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Who is Ella Baker?
was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s. She was a behind-the-scenes activist, whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr
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What disease did Fannie Lou Hamer suffer from in her youth?
Polio
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What criminal acts were committed against her?
Beaten, threatened, arrested, and shot at
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In 1964 what did she help to form?
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Where was the 1964 Democratic Convention that Fannie Lou spoke at? 

Atlantic City

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Who is Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, newspaper editor and, , an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites
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What was Fannie Lou Hamer's maiden name?
Townsend
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What did Fannie Lou Hamer establish for poor farmers
Freedom Farms Corporation
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In 1964 what two races attended the delegates of the MFDP, and was the name of the convention attended?
White and Black attended, and the name of the convention was the National Democratic Convention
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Where is Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS located?

Bronx

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Who is Bessie Coleman
pioneer in aviation; first African American woman with a pilot's license, first African American woman to fly a plane; first American with an international pilot's license.