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	Fannie Lou Hamer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer" for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity.
		She was born in Ruleville, Mississippi, on October 6, 1917, the youngest of 20 children in a family of slaves.
		She ran for Congress in 1964 and 1965, and was eventually seated as a member of Mississippi's legitimate delegation to the Democratic National Convention of 1968, where she was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer (1406 words)

	Substance Abuse Treatment Ruleville, Mississippi
		Ruleville, Mississippi has a total population of 3234.
		The average age for a male in Ruleville, Mississippi is 26.7.
		The average age for a female in Ruleville, Mississippi is 34.8.
	www.substanceabusetreatment.info /city.htm?state=mississippi&city=ruleville (681 words)

	Ruleville, Mississippi Historical Collection
		One copy of History of Ruleville Baptist Church by John Allen Robertson, Church Historian and Acting Archivist, 1972.
		John A. Robertson and Tom W. Conger, Jr., Early History of the Town of Ruleville, Mississippi, in the Heart of the Mississippi Delta (Greenville, Miss.: Democrat Printing Co., 1965), call number F349.R8 R6.
		One copy of a booklet titled "United Methodist Church, Ruleville, Mississippi", which is a history of the church written by Rev. Allen Dearing, with assistance from Tom W. Conger, Jr.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/rulevill.htm (290 words)

	Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
		In 1964, the MDFP challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation to the Democratic Convention, and in l968, the Convention seated an integrated challenge delegation from Mississippi.
		Organizers chose to focus their efforts on Mississippi because of the state's particularly dismal voting-rights record: in 1962 only 6.7 percent of African Americans in the state were registered to vote, the lowest percentage in the country.
		Mississippi's fl schools were invariably poorly funded, and teachers had to use hand-me-down textbooks that offered a racist slant on American history.
	users.skynet.be /suffrage-universel/us/uspamfdp.htm (4937 words)

	Mississippi Delta Literary Tour
		Clarksdale, Mississippi, is home of the Delta Blues Museum and of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), widely regarded as the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century.
		Spooney Kenter is a native of Greenwood, Mississippi.
		Carver Randle is a native of Indianola, Mississippi, and is on the board of the B. King Foundation, which is bringing a long-awaited B. King Museum to the legendary bluesman’s hometown.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/south/register/literarytour/people.html (1225 words)

	Find Churches in Ruleville Mississippi - FlockFinder.com
		Lots of churches in Ruleville Mississippi already have their own site, but for the most part, the only people viewing the site are their own church members.
		For a while now, churches in Ruleville Mississippi have felt pressure to get a website thinking it would be an evangelistic tool and way to promote their church.
		churches in Ruleville Mississippi would be surprised at the amount of people who are looking for a church in their area.
	www.flockfinder.com /churches_mississippi/ruleville/churches_ruleville_mississippi.html (496 words)

	Ruleville Middle School - Ruleville, Mississippi / MS - school information
		In 2004-2005 Mississippi used the Mississippi Curriculum Test (MCT) to test students in reading, math, language arts in grades 2 through 8 and in writing in grades 4 and 7.
		In 2004-2005 Mississippi used the Subject Assessment Testing Program (SATP) to test students in English II, algebra I, biology I, U.S. History and writing at the completion of each course.
		Mississippi school information (click to expand) School information by state (click to expand) School information by city (click to expand)
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/achievement/ms/898 (382 words)

	Ruleville, Mississippi: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The updated page can be found at: ruleville mississippi
		Ruleville is a city located in Sunflower County, Mississippi (Sunflower County, Mississippi: more facts about this subject).
		Out of the total population, 47.7% of those under the age of 18 and 27.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ruleville_mississippi (461 words)

	American Experience \| The Murder of Emmett Till \| Special Features
		The way fls have to bow down to whites is as a dog being scared of a cat, it's crazy I don't understand life in the Mississippi Delta fls and whites have different bathrooms, different rights, different lives, maybe it's a little too different.
		Ruleville, a small town pierced with a racial past and a gloomy future, as segregation permeates the community.
		Although, not wanting to take anything away from Ruleville it has made some progress, but there is much hope this community someday will give up it's ignorant bigotry, and its antiquated ways and realize everyone is equal.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_students.html (1466 words)

	HAMER WEB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Her parents were share croppers of Ruleville, Mississippi.
		At the age of 12 years old she was forced to drop out of school so she could chop cotton and work in the fields to help support her family.
		She is now deceased and is buried in Ruleville, Mississippi with great honor.
	www.unc.edu /~cmyers/kendrad.html (400 words)

	Ruleville, Mississippi MS, city profile (Sunflower County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Mississippi > All counties > Sunflower County > Ruleville
		Ruleville, MS Ruleville is a city in Sunflower County, in the Indianola metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Ruleville was $11,664, compared with $21,587 nationally.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19996 (416 words)

	Dockery Plantation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dockery Plantation was a 10,000 acre cotton plantation and sawmill near Ruleville, Mississippi.
		This is a May 2005 picture of the Dockery Plantation.
		This Mississippi state location article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dockery_Plantation (93 words)

	Ruleville Mississippi Information
		Ruleville, Mississippi accomodations, resorts, inns and B&Bs might be just what you need for a good nights rest.
		Special events such as sales events, school social events, sports events and even marathon running events in Ruleville, Mississippi can be found or posted on our free to use and free to print 2006 calendars.
		Our Free Ruleville, Mississippi community forums allows you to talk to other people in your hometown about the community issues that concern you.
	www.hometownusa.com /ms/Ruleville.html (1000 words)

	Say It Plain - American RadioWorks
		Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, speaks before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, August 22, 1964.
		One of twenty children born to a family of sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Hamer grew up picking cotton and cutting corn and attended school through the sixth grade.
		When we got to Winona, Mississippi, which is Montgomery County, four of the people got off to use the washroom, and two of the people - to use the restaurant - two of the people wanted to use the washroom.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/sayitplain/flhamer.html (1721 words)

	Awards > DPOL Awards > Winner Profile
		The Church of Christ of Ruleville, Mississippi, Inc. is located in the heart of Ruleville in Sunflower County.
		Because of this, many residents in Ruleville suffer from low self-esteem.
		During the past two years, the average student improved his or her grade by one letter due the dedication of the mentoring team.
	www.pointsoflight.org /awards/dpol/winner_print.cfm?ID=2809 (556 words)

	Direct TV Ruleville Mississippi Directtv Ruleville Directv - Much Better Than Cable TV Town MS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Directv Ruleville Mississippi has turned out to be the Revolution in the Satellite TV provider of the Age.
		A Directv Ruleville Mississippi customer is let to record their favorite programs while watching another one.
		DIRECTV Ruleville Mississippi offers an incredible selection of entertainment for every member of the family -- all in the 100% digital-quality picture and sound that Directv is known for.
	www.indopano.com /ms-ruleville-direct-tv.html (1069 words)

	Manuscripts Mississippi State University Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Toler's specialty was Mississippi politics and from 1928 on he covered the Mississipi legislature and the capitol, and his papers reflect that specialty in their documentation of the outstanding events of the period.
		Collection of Ward of Columbus, Mississippi, consists of the personal and business papers of the James Sykes family of Columbus and the related families of Billups and Lanier.
		Included is a broadside concerning voting (1868?), voter registration certificates (1867-1873), letters which discuss politics and other matters, and a scrapbook containing letters and petitions to President Woodrow Wilson urging the appointment of W.H. Taft to the position of Supreme Court Justice, as well as letters of Taft and newspaper clippings (1914-1916).
	library.msstate.edu /content/templates?a=122&z=44&page=10 (445 words)

	Untitled Document
		Fanny Lou Hamer, and I live at 626 East Lafayette Street, Ruleville, Mississippi, Sunflower County, the home of Senator James O. Eastland, and Senator Stennis.
		We was met in Indianola by Mississippi men, Highway Patrolmens and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.
		After we paid the fine among us, we continued on to Ruleville, and Reverend Jeff Sunny carried me four miles in the rural area where I had worked as a timekeeper and sharecropper for 18 years.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/programs/pauleyg/voices/fhamer.htm (918 words)

	Ruleville Mississippi Resource Guide, City or community of Ruleville, Mississippi Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
		The amount of land area in Ruleville is 6.556 sq.
		The distance from Ruleville to Washington DC is 866 miles.
		Ruleville is positioned 33.72 degrees north of the equator and 90.55 degrees west of the prime meridian.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /mscountyruleville.htm (187 words)

	"History They Didn't Teach You in School"--October 6th, 1917: Fannie Lou Hamer b : Houston Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Fannie Lou Hamer became active in the Civil Rights movement in 1962, when, inspired by the activities of the SCLC and SNCC, she helped organize a voter-registration drive among the African-Americans of Ruleville, Mississippi, although she herself was denied the vote because she couldn't pay a poll tax.
		In June 1963, she and other African-American women who had been riding a Trailways bus to attend a civil rights workshop, were stopped by Mississippi county police and taken to jail, where the chief of police forced fl male prisoners to beat her and her companions.
		In 1964, she helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an alternative to the white racist Missisiisipii Democratic Party, and at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, she and other MFDP delegates challenged the regular Mississippi delegation for floor credentials.
	houston.indymedia.org /print.php?id=16391 (732 words)

	Library System - Howard University
		She led the cotton pickers resistance movement in 1965 and was instrumental in helping to bring a Head Start program to her hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi and was involved in other programs throughout the state.
		She ran for the Mississippi State Senate in 1971 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972.
		Her funeral was held in Ruleville, Mississippi on March 21, 1977.
	www.howard.edu /library/reference/guides/hamer (1416 words)

	Testimony
		It was the 31st of August in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the country courthouse in Indianola to try to register to try to become first-class citizens.
		After we had taken this test and started back to Ruleville, we was held up by the City Police and the State Highway Patrolmen and carried back to Indianola where the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color.
		When we got to Winona, Mississippi, which is in Montgomery County, four of the people got off to use the washroom, and two of the people — to use the restaurant — two of the people wanted to use the washroom.
	www.factmonster.com /t/hist/hamer-dnc1964 (937 words)

	Sample Chapter for Marsh, C.: God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights.
		I'm going to stay in Mississippi and if they shoot me down, I'll be buried here." The experience brought her face to face with her worst fears about white racist violence, civil rights activism, and herself, but empowered by freedom songs and "the truth" she emerged full of courage and righteous anger.
		Mississippi "nigras" were not content after all, as white politicians had been nervously telling the media, their constituents, and themselves.
		Lewis, who worked with SNCC in Greenwood, believed that the time had come "to take Mississippi to the nation." The state was in a crisis situation at every level, with nearly 450,000 fls of voting age living in a constant state of oppression, and with fewer than 7,000 fls registered to vote in early 1964.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s6175.html (10403 words)

	Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- 4th Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Family Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		THE ROAR FOUNDATION, INC is sponsoring The 4th Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Family Day Event in Ruleville, Mississippi at The Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden Park on Saturday, September 13th, 2003 at 12:00 noon to commemorate Fannie Lou Hamer and Civil Rights Movement Veterans from around the nation.
		Dorsey and the Delta Research & Cultural Institute at Mississippi Valley State University is hosting a two-day conference at "The Valley" on Thursday and Friday, September 11th and 12th, 2003.
		The City of Ruleville has planted additional trees and hired help is available part time and via partnership with County and State Officials, state inmates from Parchman clean up The Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden Park.
	www.crmvet.org /anc/2003arch/0309flh1.htm (576 words)

	Miss. - Joe to John M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		He operated a general store in Ruleville, and in his last years was operating a coal yard which was supplied by railroad shipments.
		He was superintendent of the Sunday school of Ruleville Methodist Church for a number of years (Early History of the Town of Ruleville, Ruleville, Mississippi, by John A Robertson and Tom W. Conger, Jr, undated...source of info on church position).
		Harris lived in several locations in Ruleville, the last was at 221 Harrison St, a two-story structure.
	members.aol.com /Rayhbanks/MissJ4.html (922 words)

	Ruleville, Mississippi Flash Designers - Flash Site Design Firms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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	Fannie_Lou_Hamer_1964
		It was the 31st of August in 1952 that eighteen of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens.
		We was met in Indianola by Mississippi men, highway patrolmens, and they only allowed tow of us in to take the literacy test at the time.
		When we got to Winona, Mississippi, which is in Montgomery county, four of the people got off to use the washroom, and two of the people–to use the restaurant–two of the people wanted to use the washroom.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~aslagell/SpCm416/Fannie_Lou_Hamer_1964.html (1001 words)

	Lawyers in Ruleville Mississippi Attorney for Divorce Auto Car Accident DWI Advertising
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