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Fannie Lou Hamer's America | The Brutality in Winona, MS
Fannie Lou Hamer describes the ill-fated day she, Annell Ponder and Euvester Simpson were arrested in Winona, Mississippi. The interrogation of Mrs. Hamer would forever change her work and life as the brutal police beating left her physically scarred, affecting her health in later years.
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