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Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi

A photograph of an African American cotton plantation worker in the Mississippi Delta in 1939.

A photograph of an African American cotton plantation worker in the Mississippi Delta in 1939.

Citation Information: Wolcott, Marion Post, “African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, riding a mule and holding down a sack of cotton in the cotton field at Nugent Plantation,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/73fbdd0672d05c24ea67626d6caef538.

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A photograph of an African American cotton plantation worker in the Mississippi Delta in 1939.

A photograph of an African American at a plantation store in the Mississippi Delta in 1939.

A photograph of a group at the county convention of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964.

An article from Memphis World describing a mock ballot among African American voters, November 14, 1964.

An article from Memphis World about the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the Freedom Drive, September 5, 1964.

A photograph of African American day laborers in the Mississippi Delta in 1940.

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