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On June 9, 1963, police arrested civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and several colleagues while they attempted to integrate a nearby segregated bus terminal. The group was traveling home to Mississippi after attending nonviolent protest and registration classes in South Carolina. In the jail on this site, the police brutally beat and tortured them. Hamer barely survived her injuries but continued to challenge Mississippi's and the nation's White supremacists by demanding equal rights. She died in 1977.
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Winona, Mississippi · United States
