The Movement was also a fight for voting rights.  Around the South, Black people had been kept from voting by special tests, poll taxes and intimidation.  One of the most powerful leaders
in the struggle for the vote was Fannie Lou Hamer, who was arrested and viciously beaten
by police for trying to register voters.  She helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and gave an eloquent speech at the Democratic Party convention in 1964.  She is buried next to her husband in her home town of Ruleville, Mississippi.