On this day in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was jailed and beaten for defying segregation on a bus and at a restaurant.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 9, 2023 JUNE 9, 1963 Fannie Lou Hamer after being beaten in jail, June 1963. Returning from a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee training session in South Carolina, Fannie Lou Hamer and nine other civil rights movement activists dared to ride in the “white” section of a Greyhound bus and sit at the “whites-only” lunch counter inside the bus terminal in Winona, Mississippi. The police chief had them arrested.
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