Analysis Of We Re On Our Way By Fannie Lou Hammer

The document “We’re On Our Way” is the testimony of Fannie Lou Hammer. In this document, Hammer describes how America is no longer the land of the free and the brave as it was believed to be. The aftereffects of the incidents of Hammer’s life defined her reasoning for this belief. Hammer does not believe this to be true anymore because people are being murdered because they want to become first class citizens in their society. Hammer argues through her personal experiences on the bus and the workshop that lead to jail; that America is no longer the home of the brave nor the free. Through the argument that Hammer makes it is clear that America needs to live up to its constitutional standards; one way for America to do this is to create social …show more content…
Hammer and the eighteen others desired to become first class citizens of their society. Once she and her fellow peers finished registering they got back onto the bus and began home. Subsequently they were pulled over by a highway patrolman. Once pulled over they were forced to go back to Indianola, Mississippi by the policeman. Indianola is where the Courthouse was located. When they arrived the bus driver was charged with driving a bus of the wrong color. This was believed to be a mistake by those who were on the bus as it had been used for cotton chopping and picking for many years. After in Indianola, Hammer was taken back to Ruleville. When they returned she was taken to her place of work to be notified that she had been fired. She had been there for eighteen years as a timekeeper and share-cropper. While in Ruleville Hammer was threatened by the policeman to withdraw her registration. If she didn’t withdraw her registration however, she would have to leave, either by force or other manners. This is just one of the instances that Hammer was involved in as a result of her skin color and inequality in America. This event shows how African Americans were treated during the time of Fannie Lou Hammer. African Americans were accused with false charges based on fictional …show more content…
After the event they stopped at a restaurant a few individuals got off to eat and use the facilities. All of the sudden a few of the individuals came rushing back to the bus, because policemen were ordered to come get those who were on the bus. When Hammer stepped out of the bus after she saw the others being forced into the vehicles, a policeman was ordered to take her. Hammer was kicked in the leg and forced into the police car then taken to the county jail. During the time Hammer spent in the Jail, she heard a Miss Ponder being beaten. Miss Ponder was with Hammer at the workshop. While Miss Ponder was being beaten she began praying and calling out to God. She prayed for mercy on the men beating her as they didn’t know what they were doing. Hammer believed Miss Ponder to fully trust in the God she believed in and believed that he was going to forgive and have mercy. Even while Miss Ponder was going through trials and tribulations, as well as accusations against her she still has faith that her God is sovereign. In Hammer’s experience with the policemen they threatened her and then drug her to another cell where 3 white men, other officers, and 2 black men stood. Hammer was forced faced down onto a bunk there in the cell. Where an African American man was forced to beat her, followed by another. Both men were forced to beat her until they were ordered to stop by the