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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Forc Sterilization of Black Women

In 19 61, one year before hamer joined the movement, she was hospitalized. She had a small uterine tumor, and this was a non cancer's tumor. The doctor who performed the surgery onbenounce to hamer, removed her uterus. To add insult to injury, he didn't say anything. Immediately, hamer did not know exactly what had happened. And she learned about the forc sterilization, actually, through the whisper network.

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