More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Shit, New Poll Finds

Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) testifying before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., in a speech that was televised nationally Aug. 22, 1964. Hamer spoke on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that had been denied seats at the convention by organizers acting on behalf of the “regular” Mississippi Democratic Party’s delegation.