digitalpubliclibraryofamerica: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, led by Fannie Lou Hamer and
digitalpubliclibraryofamerica: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, led by Fannie Lou Hamer and others, elected its own delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention to protest voter discrimination in Mississippi. Learn how the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and voting rights activism contributed to African American political empowerment in presidential elections in our new exhibition, Battle on the Ballot: Political Outsiders in US Presidential Elections. This photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer giving a televised speech comes from the collection of Wisconsin Historical Society via Recollection Wisconsin. -- source link