50 Years/50 Collections: The Fannie Lou Hamer Papers, 1981
“Dear fanny lou, we have gust studied some fammouise black leaders it’s hard to explain about how I feel but there [is] one thing I can write that’s true in my heart I wish I could give you as much freedom as I could give It’s gust not fair to treet blacks so cruelly…if I could give you eneything I’d give you freedom so free as the wind the birds and trees and the sky…I care for you. Love, Laura.”
Laura’s letter is one of many received by civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hame