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Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the DNC with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago

Vice President Kamala accepted the Democrats’ presidential nomination Thursday, Aug. 22, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised speech that challenged the seating of Mississippi’s all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. Read more at www.flcourier.com.

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