Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of ...

Fannie Lou Hamer ... of the all-white Mississippi delegates at the Democratic National Convention. Hamer was elected vice chair of the integrated delegation, which consisted of 64 black members ...

When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly how she wanted to spend her life — fighting for every Black American's ...