<>I Question
America begins
with Fannie Lou as a very young girl living and working on the
plantation with
her parents and siblings. It depicts years of hard work in the cotton
fields
for little or no money, but food and
denotes her first awareness of the inequality between the Blacks and
Whites’
way of living. She became more aware of this inequality and unrest
within her
was unsettling. This provoked
her to seek a better
way. One day upon hearing from Mr. Forman, that the Blacks had a right
to vote according to the Constitution, she began her fight
for civil rights for not only Blacks but poor Whites,
alike. Her determination took her around the Country
protesting and speaking against racism in Mississippi and eventually
addressed the Halls of Congress. In the interim she was abused
and beaten beyond what any human or animal should had to endure. Her efforts
were not in vain
for she did make a difference and forced some changes to occur right in
her
very own community, Ruleville, Mississippi, as well as across the
Country by
alerting Northern Blacks and whites of the injustices in the South. Her efforts
during the Civil
Rights Movement assisted in getting the Voting Rights Act, Equal
Employment
and Federal Housing laws passed.
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