Post by jbrob on Apr 11, 2024 7:01:23 GMT -5
April 10, 1967
Fannie Lou Hamer, Unita Blackwell and others testified about the immense poverty in the Mississippi Delta as U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy and others listened at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Jackson.
The next day, Kennedy and Sen. Joseph Clark from Pennsylvania toured the Delta with Marian Wright, seeing malnutrition they equated with Third World countries.
mississippitoday.org/2024/04/10/on-this-day-in-1967-fannie-lou-hamer-unita-blackwell-poverty-delta-us-senate/
Fannie Lou Hamer, Unita Blackwell and others testified about the immense poverty in the Mississippi Delta as U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy and others listened at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Jackson.
The next day, Kennedy and Sen. Joseph Clark from Pennsylvania toured the Delta with Marian Wright, seeing malnutrition they equated with Third World countries.
mississippitoday.org/2024/04/10/on-this-day-in-1967-fannie-lou-hamer-unita-blackwell-poverty-delta-us-senate/
