History Shmistory Podcast

How Fannie Lou Hamer owned LBJ


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This episode is about Fannie Lou Hamer, a black female sharecropper living in poverty who went on to found an integrated Democratic Party in Mississippi and fight against racial and economic injustice in the United States. Included at the end of the episode is her testimony before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ on August 22,1964. 

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpIlI09Lxe8

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