Jacqueline Hamer Flakes (right), daughter of Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Euvester Simpson (left), at the unveiling of a historical marker honoring Fannie Lou Hamer, Thursday, June 9, 2022. The marker is located at the former jail site where Hamer, Simpson and other voting rights activists were jailed and beaten in Winona. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
It has been 59 years since Euvester Simpson returned to the city where police arrested and beat her and five voting rights activists in the former county jail.
