Bettie Mae Fikes (born 1948) also known as The Voice of Selma,[1] is an American singer and civil rights activist.
[2] Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers,[3] and became known as "the Voice of Selma".
[4] She was jailed as a teenager in 1963 for her participation in a Selma protest and was also involved in Bloody Sunday in 1965.
[citation needed] In 2020, she sang at the funeral services for John Lewis, which she indicated might be her final public performance.
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