Registering to Vote – What we went through to do so

It was the 31st of August in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the country courthouse in Indianola to try to register to try to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by …the highway patrolmen and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. After we had taken this test and started back to Ruleville, we was held up by the city police and the State highway patrolmen and carried back to Indianola where the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color. … After we paid the fine [Read More Story…]

By Fannie Lou Hamer an voting rights activist and civil rights leader | The Network Journal