She the People by Jen Deaderick & Rita Sapunor

Author:Jen Deaderick & Rita Sapunor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

To drive home the point, the MFDP asked Hamer to tell her story to the convention’s credentials committee. Knowing what an engaging speaker she was, the networks were there prepared to broadcast her speech live. A few minutes in, President Johnson, still trying to hold on to those Dixiecrat votes somehow, panicked and declared an impromptu news conference to preempt her airtime.

That just meant the networks broadcast her remarks later, during prime time, so the nation got to hear the details of what was done to her when she had simply tried to vote. The nation also heard her ask,

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