![]() One of these men was a State Highway Patrolman and he asked me where I was from. And after a while she began to pray, and asked God to have mercy on those people.Īnd it wasn't too long before three white men came to my cell. She said, "I don't know you well enough." She would say, "Yes, I can say 'yes, sir.'" And I could hear somebody say, "Can you say, 'yes, sir,' nigger? Can you say 'yes, sir'?" After I was placed in the cell I began to hear sounds of licks and screams, I could hear the sounds of licks and horrible screams. I was placed in a cell with a young woman called Miss Ivesta Simpson. They left some of the people in the booking room and began to place us in cells. I was carried to the county jail and put in the booking room. I stepped off of the bus to see what was happening and somebody screamed from the car that the five workers was in and said, "Get that one there." When I went to get in the car, when the man told me I was under arrest, he kicked me. I got back on the bus and one of the persons had used the washroom got back on the bus, too.Īs soon as I was seated on the bus, I saw when they began to get the five people in a highway patrolman's car. And one of the ladies said, "It was a State Highway Patrolman and a Chief of Police ordered us out." But when I looked through the window and saw they had rushed out I got off of the bus to see what had happened. The four people that had gone in to use the restaurant was ordered out. When we got to Winona, Mississippi, which is Montgomery County, four of the people got off to use the washroom, and two of the people - to use the restaurant - two of the people wanted to use the washroom. Ten of us was traveling by the Continental Trailway bus. ANNA HOWARD SHAW SPEECH CENTRAL IDEA REGISTRATIONJoe McDonald's house was shot in.Īnd June the 9th, 1963, I had attended a voter registration workshop was returning back to Mississippi. That same night two girls were shot in Ruleville, Mississippi. On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. He said, "Well I mean that." He said, "If you don't go down and withdraw your registration, you will have to leave." Said, "Then if you go down and withdraw," said, "you still might have to go because we are not ready for that in Mississippi."Īnd I addressed him and told him and said, "I didn't try to register for you. Before he quit talking the plantation owner came and said, "Fannie Lou, do you know - did Pap tell you what I said?" I was met there by my children, who told me that the plantation owner was angry because I had gone down to try to register.Īfter they told me, my husband came, and said the plantation owner was raising Cain because I had tried to register. ![]() ANNA HOWARD SHAW SPEECH CENTRAL IDEA DRIVERAfter 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.Īfter we paid the fine among us, we continued on to Ruleville, and Reverend Jeff Sunny carried me four miles in the rural area where I had worked as a timekeeper and sharecropper for eighteen years. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. Fannie Lou Hamer, and I live at 626 East Lafayette Street, Ruleville, Mississippi, Sunflower County, the home of Senator James O. ![]() Chairman, and to the Credentials Committee, my name is Mrs. ![]()
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