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Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
An article from Memphis World about Hamer being refused a place on the ballot at the Democratic National Convention, October 31, 1964.

An article from Memphis World about Hamer being refused a place on the ballot at the Democratic National Convention, October 31, 1964.

Transcript:

Miss Commission Refuses Names For Negro Candidates

JACKSON, Miss. — (NPI)

—Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, vice chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation which sought to replace the all-while regular Mississippi delegates at the recent Democratic national convention, and two other state civil rights workers, have been refused places on the ballot for the Nov. 3 general election, by the Mississippi State Election Commission, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has reported.

Barred from the ballot along with Mrs. Hamer of Ruleville, Miss., SNCC said, were Dr. Aaron Henry of Clarksdale, NAACP state chairman, and Mrs. Annie Devine of Canton. Dr. Henry had tried to qualify as an independent to oppose U. S. Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi, an arch-segregationist, in the regular Nov. 3 election. All three, along with two other Negroes — Mrs. Victoria Gray of Hattiesburg and Harold Roby of Canton, will run against white opponents in a mock Freedom Vote election is designed to spotlight national attention on "the gross in- equalities of the Mississippi electoral system," the SNCC said. The FDP also will campaign actively for the election of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his vice presidential running mate Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.

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“Memphis World: Miss Commission Refuses Names For Negro Candidates,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/86bc4afefd36754267e542eb0d2f6f3d.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Rhodes College, Crossroads to Freedom via Tennessee Digital Library.

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Item 3 of 12 in the Primary Source Set Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi

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A clip of students demonstrating against the Vietnam War including a short speech by Fannie Lou Hamer, August 7, 1971.
An article from Memphis World reporting Hamer’s thoughts on medical care for African Americans, May 9, 1964.
An article from Memphis World about Hamer being refused a place on the ballot at the Democratic National Convention, October 31, 1964.
Audio clips from an interview in which Harry Belafonte reflects on Hamer’s significance and impact, January 28, 1991.
An excerpt from a FBI file record detailing the arrest of Hamer and five others for trying to use a bus terminal bathroom, June 1963.
A photograph of an African American cotton plantation worker in the Mississippi Delta in 1939.
A photograph of an African American at a plantation store in the Mississippi Delta in 1939.
A photograph of a group at the county convention of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964.
An article from Memphis World describing a mock ballot among African American voters, November 14, 1964.
An article from Memphis World about the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the Freedom Drive, September 5, 1964.
A photograph of African American day laborers in the Mississippi Delta in 1940.
A photograph of participants at a Freedom Summer meeting in 1964.

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