Fannie Lou Townsend
Fannie Lou Townsend was born in a Mongomery County in Mississippi. She was the 20thchild in her family. When she was 2 she and her family moved to sunflowercounty, Mississippi. The townsends were poor sharecrppers. A share cropper someone who works on someone elses land and gives the owner 50% of what they make. Sharecroppers were only allowed to go to school for 4 month a year. Fannie went to school until 6th grade because the family needed her to work for extra money.She then kept her education up by going to a strangers Babtist church were she learned to read the bible. Since she was black she did not have ant friends only the people that she worked with on the farm.there was alot of times when the family was short on money . Especially in the winter when there was no food to plant so they went from house to house asking for food. Her mother used to chop down trees to make some money. Until one day when a splinter got in her eye and she was not able to take it out . So she slowly began to loose her Eye sight. As you can see ,Fannie Lou Townsend had a very rough childhood.
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