(CIVIL RIGHTS) HAMER FANNIE LOU STRIKE Don’t Work For Less T

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) HAMER, FANNIE LOU. STRIKE! Don't Work For Less Than $1.25 An Hour. Join The Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. heavy stock paper placard, 17 x 11 inches, discolored spots at the corners where pasted to a heavier piece of cardboard; crease where folded across the center; two pin-holes toward the upper margin. [Mississippi, circa 1965]

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Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), orator, activist, and educator who once said she was 'sick and tired of being sick and tired,' was born in rural Montgomery County, the twentieth child of tenant farmers. In 1962, hurt and angry following a hysterectomy performed without her approval, decided to attend a meeting in her home-town of Ruleville, where she heard James Forman of SNNC and James Bevel of SCNC speak. Inspired by their words, she and seventeen others decided to register to vote. At the courthouse they were told they could only enter two at a time, and were given a literacy test, which they all failed. On their return, they were stopped by the police and told that the bus they were in was the 'wrong color.' That evening, B.D. Marlowe, the owner of the plantation on which they lived and worked told Hamer to withdraw her application or move. Thus began Fannie Lou Hamer's conversion to political activism. Hamer supported many different progressive economic projects. One of the main projects she supported actively was the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU, which was a union of black domestic workers and day laborers. The MFLU placed great emphasis on home, land and business ownership in an effort to thwart economic exploitation in Mississippi.