Fannie Lou Hamer

"On this day (June 9th) in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists were arrested in Winona, Mississippi, as they returned from a voter registration workshop. They had been traveling in the "white" section of a Greyhound bus.

The police took the activists to a jail, where they ordered male inmates to take turns beating the women. Hamer needed more than a month to recover from her extensive injuries. The march continues."