Indianola

• • Upon the bus' arrival in Indianola a crowd of hostile white men and women with dogs had formed around the bus. Cecil B. Campbell met the eighteeen SNCC members and inquired about the purpose of their visit.

Hamer told him,"We are here to register".

• She was required to read and interpret section 16 of the Mississippi state constitution.
• Hamer failed the test but did not resign to her failure. She decided that she would return and take the test as many times as she could until she passed.

• • On the way back to Ruleville the bus was stopped by several officers claiming that the bus was the wrong color. They threatened to take the driver to jail if he did not pay a fine of one hundred dollars. The activists on the bus stood together in silidarity and said that if he was going to jail they were all going with him. Hamer recalled, "We didn't know what it was all about, but we knowed we should stick with him because he carried us down there". The officer's did not want any public attention drawn to the situation so they settled for a fine of thirty dollars which the passengers paid collectively.

After Indianola Hamer returned home W.D. Marlow, the plantation owner was furious after finding out that Hamer had registered to vote. Fannie was told to withdraw her registration or they would be forced to leave. Hamer decided to leave the plantation she had worked on for eighteen years in pursuit of her personal destiny and freedom. She left her husband and her children behind so they wouldn't have to suffer on account of of her actions. Pap stayed on the plantation until the end of harvest season.

• Hamer returned to the voting registrar, Cecil B. Campbell for a number of reasons including the sheer indignation she felt when she was denied the right to vote, she was beginning to envision a larger place for herself in the civil rights movement,and she had become impatient about determining her own destiny and the destinies of her people.

On January 10, 1963, Hamer returned to the Indianola courthouse to take the exam for a third time and she was told that she finally passed. Hamer had to pay a series of poll-taxes before she ws truly allowed to exercise her right to vote.

• Hamer had been a member of the NAACP, which had been active within the black comunity but had failed to (1) organize and strengthen leadership already present and (2)articulate realizable and immediate goals for the community. The emergence of Hamer's leadership in such organizations like SNCC continued to fuel the movement and advance the fight for economic and political freedom.