I was forty four years old and didn’t even know what a “mass meeting was” and I went to the SNCC and I was told something I have never heard of in my life that African American girls like myself couldn’t vote.I was furious and wanted to change the future where we can vote.I Grew up with a family of sharecroppers and had to pick cotton and cut corn. Hamer went a worked as a field organizer.we were intercepted by a group of policemen.They made permanent damage to my kidneys.After I healed, I traveled across the U.S spreading by story. In 1964 I thought about” running for Congress” so I did.I got threatened by the MFDP when they arrived at the convention.Later that night they broadcast my story on all the major networks.
