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[Seeding the vote]

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O'Leary, Chandler, artist
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"Our 27th broadside honors Fannie Lou Hamer's home county of Sunflower County, Mississippi, where she planted the seeds for a voting rights campaign that grew rapidly into a blooming national movem...

"Our 27th broadside honors Fannie Lou Hamer's home county of Sunflower County, Mississippi, where she planted the seeds for a voting rights campaign that grew rapidly into a blooming national movement. The first half of the quote sits "behind bars," obscured by the stalks of wilted sunflowers, while the second half is festooned with vibrant yellow blossoms. Fannie's portrait hovers above a trio of her iconic yellow voter registration buses--which are also designed to be reminiscent of other Civil Rights Movement buses in the American South, including Rosa Parks' famous bus in Montgomery, Alabama."

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