Amelia Boynton, beaten unconscious <Figure 6.9>
Figure 6.9 here
Amelia Boynton was beaten unconscious on the Edmund Pettis Bridge by an Alabama State Trooper, Bloody Sunday, Lyles, ch. 6.
Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
Approximately two months after Sims, on August 22, 1964, civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party spoke before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention. In her televised speech, she recounted the violent opposition she encountered when attempting to register to vote and criticized Mississippi’s exclusion of Black Americans from the all-white Democratic Party.[i]
[i]See Janice D. Hamlet, “Fannie Lou Hamer: The Unquenchable Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 26, No. 5, Special Issue: The Voices of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement (May, 1996), pp. 560-576.
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