That Little Light of Hers Shines On and On: How Fannie Lou Hamer Rocked Mississippi for Civil Rights

Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the tall, dapper congressman who represented Harlem, wanted to be sure the short, stout sharecropper from Mississippi in a borrowed dress understood how important and powerful he was.

“I know who you are,” Fannie Lou Hamer told him.

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