Sharecroppers and African American

Sharecroppers and African American

Twenty years ago, Mississippi, a state in which law enforcement officers, as a rule, did nothing, as African-Americans who want to participate in the vote, were killed in the state. White sent a delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ Fannie Lou Hamer, a former Mississippi sharecropper, places into question lilywhite head of the delegation in 1964, claiming that her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was more representative of voters in the state of Mississippi.

National Democratic Party officials hastily arranged a compromise that gave a voice to two MFDP delegates and ...