On June 9, 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leadership retreat in Charleston, South Carolina. This training helped solidify her voice as one of the most potent in the fight for Black voting rights. Having been recently fired and beaten for attempting to register to vote, Hamer’s fierce courage and storytelling would soon galvanize the nation. Her rise from a sharecropper to national civil rights icon began to formalize at this meeting, where her peers recognized her unique ability to connect, inspire, and organize marginalized communities across the Deep South.
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