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![The white officers then forced two African American prisoners to brutally beat Ms. Hamer with loaded blackjacks; she was nearly killed. As Mrs. Hamer regained consciousness, she overheard one of the white officers propose, "We could put them SOBs in [the] Big Black River and nobody would ever find them."
Ms. Hamer never fully recovered from the attack; she lost vision in one of her eyes and suffered permanent kidney damage, which contributed to her death in 1977 at age 59. Lawyers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) filed suit against the Winona police who brutalized the activists, but an all-white jury acquitted them. Despite the trauma she experienced, Ms. Hamer returned to Mississippi to continue organizing voter registration drives and remained active in civil rights causes until her death.](https://samepassage.org/wp-content/plugins/youtube-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
Fannie Lou Hamer talks about being Beaten in jail
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Fannie Lou Hamer talks about being Beaten in jail
Walter Lee Fowlkes Interview
Hate & Its Impact Nazi Ideology & Racism in the Jim Crow South
Elbert Big Man Howard
Joseph Echols Lowery