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| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Combat | ATK 85 DEF 88 SPR 99 SPD 70 INT 92 |
| Rank | Civil Rights organizer / SNCC field secretary / Co-founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
| Domain | Voter registration, sharecropper organizing, prophetic witness from the bottom of the American class structure |
| Alignment | Holy / Grassroots |
| Weakness | Survived a 1963 jailhouse beating in Winona, Mississippi, that left her with permanent kidney damage. Forcibly sterilized without consent in 1961 (a "Mississippi appendectomy"). Died in 1977 of cancer and the cumulative effects of state violence |
| Key Act | Born 1917, twentieth child of Mississippi sharecroppers. Lost her job and her home for trying to register to vote in 1962. Joined SNCC. Helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Delivered the speech to the credentials committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention -- "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" -- that LBJ tried to preempt with a hastily called press conference. Sang the spirituals into the microphone of American politics |
| Source | Kay Mills, *This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer* (1993); Hamer's collected speeches |
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” — Fannie Lou Hamer, Democratic National Convention, August 22, 1964
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