amer; they only made her commit deeper and stronger to the cause. December 4, 1962 Fannie Lou Hamer finally passed the test that allowed her to vote. However this was not the end to Hamer’s fight for herself and her people. In 1963 Hamer and Annelle Ponder attended a voter registration workshop. On their way home they were arrested in Winona, Mississippi for trying to eat in a white-only restaurant. It was here where Fannie experienced prison and true racism. “She was taken into a cell with two Negro prisoners, forced down on a bunk bed and beaten by both prisoners with a heavy blackjack.” “The blows became so hard to bear that Hamer began wishing that the two men would strike that “one lick that could have ended (her) misery”. Normal people might have given up after this incident, but not Hamer. This only intensified the fire inside of her to fight for the right of black people everywhere.After Hamer got back to Mississippi she found out that on the same night she was beating in Winona the NAACP field director Medgar Evers had been murdered. This added wood to her fire inspired her to fight even harder. Fannie was asked about the activities she did as a voter registration worker in her first year of working for the SNCC. This was not easy work for Hamer and those who worked with her. They would go from place to place and educate people about their right to vote and how to register. The frustration came in when they would return to that town and someone would have scared the people they have talked to the pervious day and those people would not talk to them. This was very disappointing to Fannie and her fellow workers, to work so hard and then have someone come along and destroy their efforts. Hamer took her work seriously and would not give in at any cost.Every struggle Fannie went through just added flame to the fire that burned inside. Well working with the SNCC Fannie did m...
