A. Lynch

Thank you for listening! If you would like to share your NDE story with us please email us at realneardeathexperiencestories@gmail.com On the night of Sept 7th, I was finding it hard to breathe and spent the night sleeping while standing up and leaning over the kitchen counter. I found it more and more difficult to breathe and asked my husband to take me to the emergency room. My son is a paramedic in our city and I thought I had a bowel blockage and didn’t want to cause a medic unit to come to the house for something like that. As we went to the hospital, I became greatly distressed ...

She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America—the right to cast a ballot—in a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population. And so Fannie Lou Hamer lifted up her voice.