In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, the head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, spoke in stark detail ... be relegated to the background, while white politicians and then later Black male ...
Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ presidential nom-ination Thursday Aug. 22, 2024, exactly 60 years after ...
“You’re leaving an incredible mark on our country with insight and influence that can be felt around the globe,” Biden said at a White ... of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party who ...
House Bill 1 — authored by Republican Rep. Trey Lamar of Senatobia and other House leaders – passed 88-24 with only ...
WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.
WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.