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Compare the experience of Fannie Lou Hamer with those of other women in the freedom movement of the 1950s to 1970s

FANNIE LOU HAMER : A Unique Feminist of her Time

Her Autobiography

Fannie Lou Hamer was born to a family of 20 children . She was the youngest of all her siblings . As the youngest , she was supposed to receive most of the attention from her parents , however , because of the circumstance of life that she was brought up to , she learned to forget that idea and face reality as life offers it to her . Being born to a family of slaves , Fannie Lou had to sacrifice personal happiness to support her family 's

needs and take on grown up responsibilities at an early age (Asch , 2005 , 77 ) Likely , her life situation ever since she was born gave her the idea that the treatment they are receiving as a family from their masters is actually not justifiable by any reasons at all . It could be noted that her thoughts of freedom has led her to becoming one of the most sought after feminists of her time (Asch 2005 , 78 ) Her idealisms and thoughts about the freedom that women as well as black Americans should have way from slavery has actually stood strongly against the oppressive ways by which her people and her gender had been treated through the years (Lee , 1999 , 76

Her Idealisms on Change and Liberation

Due to attending to several movements of liberation during her time she realized that fear of the white men actually moved her to lessen the chances of gaining freedom from their supposed masters . Fear , as she believed is a matter of hindrance to the drams that she primarily had for herself and her people . Understandably , this leads her to becoming more persuasive and aggressive with her aim of dealing with her dreams of freedom for her people

She started her movement with the use of songs . Christian hymns that were supposed to increase the inspiration of her people to continuously hold on to the hope that they could still believe in to with regards the freedom that they all deserve to have . She started her liberation movement and decided to be stationed in Mississippi . However , although she has also been stationed in Mississippi , she started traveling towards the south (Mills , 1995 , 88 ) Unfortunately though , her aggressiveness towards liberalization brought her to being imprisoned in jail for false charging . It was believed that she was imprisoned by white policemen in fear of her growing influence in the society . While in jail , she along with her colleagues were beaten savagely to death in an aim of stopping their movements towards liberalism and freedom from slavery

After being released , she had to recover so much both from physical and emotional trauma . However , although she was afflicted through injuries her idealisms towards freedom and liberalization never stopped . This particular living thought within Fannie Lou 's system actually pushed her to reactivate her motivation towards the movement that she has started and was elected as Vice Chair of the Freedom Democrats Party in 1964 . In her speech , she mentioned...

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