60 years after Hamer’s appeal for voting and women's rights, Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee for president. She stands on Hamer's shoulders.
This historic moment deserves a remembrance of the legacy set forward by voting and women’s rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Harris stands on her shoulders.On Sunday, July 21, 2024, President Joe Biden withdrew from his bid for a second term in the White House. Amid calls for him to step aside, pundits speculated about who could or should fill the role.
In Biden’s endorsement of Harris, a powerful nominee who has served in state and federal offices emerges—and groundbreaking moment in history is sealed. In her first day as a candidate for the 2024 presidency, she has already secured a majority of the delegates necessary for the Democratic nomination. She will be the nominee.
I began to scream and one white man got up and began to beat me my head and told me to hush. … All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens.Hamer’s unsettling testimony exposed ugly truths about how Black women in Southern states like Mississippi were confronted with literacy tests if they wanted to vote.
But this is also a moment of hope. At the time of the 1964 DNC, Hamer hoped for the seating of delegates from the —a multiracial coalition—in place of the so-called “Dixiecrats” that engaged in a “web of law, intimidation, official and unofficial force, and violence terrorizing Blacks seeking voting rights.” Even though Hammer’s effort came up short, her campaign and advocacy, “forced reforms in the national Democratic Party that expanded the participation of women and going forward.
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