Poem by Jane Stembridge

MRS. HAMER

Copyright © 1966 and 1968 by Jane Stembridge.

[Mrs Fanny Lou Hamer, from sharecropper on the Sunflower (!) Plantation in Ruleville, Mississippi, to freedom fighter and to the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1964, where the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was eventually offered a token two seats — which they refused. (Sunflower was Jim Eastland's family plantation.) ]


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