Election poster for Fannie Lou Hamer

""Election poster for Hamer’s 1971 run for the Mississippi Senate. Courtesy The Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History" "Hamer ran for the Mississippi Senate in 1971 against the incumbent, Robert Crook. She campaigned with Carver Randle, an NAACP leader in Indianola who was running for the state House of Representatives. The pair ran on a platform urging that state and local governments hire more minorities for jobs previously held by whites, and to appoint more minorities to government positions. Randle said, “I was impressed with her openness and frankness no matter who was in attendance.” He said Hamer also felt that educated people in the black community “were much better equipped to do what she was doing, yet they didn’t have the fortitude to do it.” Hamer lost the election, 11,770 votes to 7,201." http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/51/fannie-lou-hamer-civil-rights-activist