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National Women's Hall of Fame:
Article- Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed a nation's perspective on democracy.

This website gives supporting information such as the birth year of Fannie Lou Hamer and what her obligations were before getting involved in the act of women's right to vote. This particular article gives specific information about what her role as a individual. `Born 1917, and died 1977. Hamer became involved in the civil rights movement when she volunteered to attempt to register to vote in 1962. By then 45 years old and a mother, Hamer lost her job and continually risked her life because of her civil rights activism. Deeply committed to improving life for poor minorities in her state, Hamer, working with the National Council of Negro Women and others, helped organize food cooperatives and other services. She continued political activities as well, helping to convene the National Women's Political Caucus in the 1970s.

This website gives important information needed to do this project. It provides me with a brief biography of Fannie Lou Hamer and what her goals of a civil rights activist were. After researching facts on this site and throughout this article, I have learned important achievements made by her. Such as, Deeply committed to improving life for poor minorities in her state, and by doing so, worked with National Council of Negro Women and others to help organize food cooperatives and other services. I include these facts about her into my NHD project and give supporting examples and details to conclude why she is the person she is today and the impact she has on today's society. I also learned the most famous phrase of hers, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired".