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Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. She defied anyone who tried to silence her. Hamer is credited with coining the phrase "Mississippi appendectomy" as a euphemism for the involuntary or uninformed sterilization of black women, common in the South in the 1960s.

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