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On this day June 09, 1963

Fannie Lou Hamer arrested and beaten in Mississippi

Fannie Lou Hamer arrested and beaten in Mississippi

Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested in Mississippi on trumped up charges and brutally beaten in jail on the orders of police. She had previously been sterilised without consent, as were many other Black women.

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