No one was more courageous than Fannie Lou Hamer. She was beaten severely and shot at many times, but she faced it all, confident that God was with her and would bring her through the difficulties she encountered fighting for freedom. “I guess if I’d had a little sense, I’d been a little scared,” she said reflecting back. But “the only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”[69]
