The Civil Rights Movement narrated by the activists, artists, educators, organizers, and changemakers who lived it.
“Miss Hamer was in such pain. Her hands were all black and blue and swollen. And her buttocks were all swollen and hard. And she developed a fever. And the only thing I had was a washcloth. And we had a sink there which, you know, I put, kept putting cold water on it.”
Euvester Simpson · Euvester Simpson on caring for Fannie Lou Hamer in their shared jail cell in Winona, Mississippi, after Hamer was severely beaten by police on the night of June 9, 1963.
