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Fannie Lou Hamer's America | A Childhood in Mississippi

Season 10 Episode 1

About the Episode

In childhood, Fannie Lou Hamer, her parents and her nineteen siblings lived with hunger. Like many young Black children, she began picking pounds and pounds of cotton in the fields, dropping out of school at the age of twelve. It was a lesson about poverty and race that was not lost on her.

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