All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America, is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?
I could not imagine everything Fannie Lou Hamer experienced in her life and to think all this happened because she wanted to be considered a first-class citizen and vote. It is so sad how important it was too many to vote and that's why they pushed so hard for civil rights and women's suffrage. It's heartbreaking because now many people have the right to vote and just don't either because they are lazy, it's not important or they feel it doesn't matter. Fannie Lou Hamer stands out to me because of her passion, she knew what was right and was willing to risk everything to stand up for what was important to her. She experienced so much in her life between going to work at age 6, to having a forced hysterectomy, to being fired, beaten and almost killed to escape the fate of The Jim Crow South calling her a second-class citizen. I feel this is a important part of the 1964 DNC because many people that lived in the NorthEast had not idea how bad the South was and what citizen experienced daily. This also helped to see what the civil war was about in the south. Despite Plessy vs Ferguson it was not separate but equal it was first vs second class citizens. Thank goodness for women like Fannie Lou Hamer and their passion to stand up for what it right in America.