[Celebrating Black History Month\Medgar Evers]
Medgar Evers: “The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home.”
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Medgar Evers
FANNIE LOU HAMER: “IS THIS AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE?”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?
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FANNIE LOU HAMER’S SPEECH AT 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: BLACKS FACE POLICE VIOLENCE TRYING TO VOTE
[Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
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