Our Pick
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Fannie Lou Hamer
born 1917
Montgomery County, Mississippi
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The twentieth child of Delta sharecroppers, picking cotton at six. Sterilised without consent during surgery, beaten nearly to death in a Winona jail for registering voters, and then, on national television at the 1964 convention, asking whether this was America.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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