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Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights

Zinn Education Project

Students share thoughts on what makes a “qualified” voter, then reconsider after reading an oral history by Fannie Lou Hamer. Here is an excerpt from that oral history interview: McMillen: When you first tried to vote, where was that? The first lesson considers who should vote. Was that in Ruleville?