Question

How did Fannie Lou Hamer describe treatment of activists who tried to register African American voters?

Answer 1

D. They were beaten and fired from their jobs.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the last one:They were beaten and fired from their jobs.

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 in Mississippi. She was a civil rights activist and strongly commited to the cause.She stood up for African Americans right to vote.

In 1964,Hamer helped coordinating a group which was in charge of providing assitance to African American people to register ion order to vote.

Hamer herself as anactivist was beaten,arrested , even fired from her job on the Marlow Plantation.In addition, she was also threatened and shot at as a consequence of the opposition of the all-white delegation.