Black Celebs You Probably Don’t Know Battled Breast Cancer
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Deron Dalton
Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist
She’s the woman who was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Hamer not only fought for our civil rights, she also endured a battle with breast cancer. Her significance as a civil rights leader came as an organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Unfortunately, she became sick with complications from diabetes, heart problems and breast cancer. We lost Hamer to heart tension in 1977.
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