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By whom are you employed' - so we can be fired by the time we get back home - 'Are you a citizen of the United States and an inhabitant of Mississippi. It began with: 'Write the date of this application. When we got to Indianola on the 31st of August in 1962, we was met there by the state highway patrolmen, the city policemen and anybody - as some of you know that have worked in Mississippi, any white man that is able to wear a khaki pair of pants without them falling off him and holding two guns can make a good law officer - so we was met by them there.Īfter taking this literacy test, some of you have seen it, we have 21 questions and some is not questions. It was the 31st of August in 1962, that I was fired for trying to become a first-class citizen.

It was the 31st of August of 1962, that eighteen of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in Indianola, Mississippi, to try to register to become first-class citizens.

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That's why it is called that instead of the 'land of the free and the home of the brave.' it's called in Mississippi 'the land of the tree and the home of the grave.' The reason I say 'exist' because we're excluded from everything in Mississippi but the tombs and the graves. My name is Fannie Lou Hamer and I exist at 626 East Lafayette Street in Ruleville, Mississippi. Hamer delivered this speech with Malcolm X at a rally at the Williams Institutional CME Church, Harlem, New York, that was organized to support the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's Congressional Challenge.