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biographer.

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

“The registrar brought out a huge black book and he pointed out a section to me with the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi and he told me to copy that section, and it was dealing with de facto laws,” Hamer explained.35 “And I knowed about as much about a de facto law as a horse knows about New Year’s,” she remarked with honesty a

from three hundred thousand in 1769

the age of forty-four, Hamer set out to let her light shine when she became a member of SNCC, working alongside many of the activists who had played such a pivotal role in her entrance into the civil rights movement.

of white contact to be perhaps fourteen million.

“You know, I don’t think she ever lost her shit around her white friends.” “Yeah, well,” Erin said ruefully, “we were family.”

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