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The US flag is drenched with our blood.” - We start this year’s Women’s History Month with these strong words by Black US women’s rights community organizer and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.
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In this interview from South Carolina in 1968, Hamer argues that the US flag “is drenched with our blood,” also adding that the US was built on the “backs of Black people” in a damning indictment of slavery.
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Born in Montgomery County, Hamer was the last of 20 children and worked picking cotton with her family from the age of six. She became interested in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and became actively involved after being denied the right to vote in 1962.
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Hamer became active for Black voting rights and welfare programs. She also founded the National Women’s Political Caucus to train women from any background who wanted to seek election to government office.

Hamer encouraged thousands of Black US citizens to register to vote in Mississippi.
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Due to this, she was extorted, threatened, and shot at by white racists and the police. On March 14, 1977, Hamer died from complications related to hypertension and breast cancer, aged only 59. However, her brave struggle against the evils of white supremacy will always live on.
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