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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention (Transcript)

This piece is to accompany Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting.Watch the video here.When a group of African-American delegates from Mississippi demanded to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the moving testimony by Fannie Lou Hamer made this former sharecropper a national spokeswoman for civil rights overnight.
October 26, 2011
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Welfare is a Women's Issue

This essay expounds on the injustices and false perceptions faced by women in the welfare system. Tillmon contends that the system is overrun with sexism and that until American women are liberated by equal pay, the welfare system will continue to be a trap for them.
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Johnnie Tillmon
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
Subject
Economics
Social Justice Domain
Identity Justice Action
July 3, 2014