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Photographer: Warren K. Leffler via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (PD)
Taken: August 22, 1964
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer
Additional Description: Scarred from the jail beating, Hamer addresses the Credentials Committee at the Democratic Party's 1964 convention in Atlantic City. She and other Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates were challenging the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we … [are] threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?” she asked the committee while recounting Winona. President Lyndon B. Johnson, alarmed that Hamer's story could cost him the support of Southern Democrats, called an impromptu press conference to divert media attention from her.
Submitted: April 5, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p715348
File Size: 0.301 Megabytes

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