Fannie Lee Hamer's Speech

It is election season in the Port City. Throughout the summer, and well into the fall, leaders of Wilmington’s Democratic party soaked their campaign speeches in the language of white supremacy and patriotism. The Democrats had lost everything in 1894. Their attacks on economic reform and farmers’ rights made them unpopular and allowed Republicans and Populists to sweep the state in 1894, creating a successful Fusion alliance. The Fusion movement extended full political participation to black North Carolinians and honored the black vote with opportunities for political office . Black office holders, in turn, supported the economic growth of black communities through civil service appointments and

It reminds readers that, “All qualified voters under the primary law of Texas except those of negro descent and who shall take the following test shall be entitled to vote” (No Article Title, March 26, 1908). This newspaper announcement substantiates the foremost strategy utilized by Democrats to maintain their supremacy—the White Primary. In order to subdue the African American vote and ensure that Anglo Texans would not vote for candidates sympathetic to African American rights, the Democrats worked to instill fear and uncertainty in the white population about race relations. The white primary effectively silenced the voice of African Americans, ensuring that no other party could

The author of the book “This Little Light of Mine; The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer” name is Kay Mills. She was born in Washington D.C. Her nationality is American and her occupation is a journalist/author. Mills passed away at the age of 69 after a heart attack in Santa Monica, California where she lived. Kay Mills may be considered an expert at this topic because she has years of experience with writing, and she graduated from Northwestern University in 1965 with a master’s degree in African history. Mills has been a journalist for over 25 years, many of those years were spent as an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. She has held a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University and a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Fellowship, and has won awards from the Planned Parenthood Federation, The National Women’s Political Caucus, and The Los Angeles Times. What helped Kay Mills write this autobiography about Fannie Lou Hamer was listening to stories about her. She states how the stories told to her about Fannie were personal, and at the same time political. The author, Kay Mills, did not have an obvious bias when writing this autobiography for Fannie Lou. She thoroughly did her research and made sure that they were facts and approved first.

“To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where we've had so much injustice,”(womenhistory.about.com). “Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men -- this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves -- but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society,”(womenhistory.about.com) Fannie Lou Hamer showed great bravery. She had perseverance through hard times and stayed determined to finish the task at hand, freedom. Fannie Lou Hamer’s life was influenced by her early life. Her major accomplishments to American society included helping organize the Mississippi Freedom

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Good Evening my fellow neighbors. Most of you know me and for the ones who do not, I am Mabel Dodge. I am the daughter from a family in Buffalo and had what was considered the best education for girls in the nineteenth- century. Instead of going to college, I got married, became a mother and soon, a widow. Later, I traveled abroad and soon married a Boston architect, Edwin Dodge who I later realized the passion I had was no more- so I divorced him. I became bored and began to crave art, the beauty and inspiration! A “salon” in Florence, Italy that I created for the purpose of attracting the most up- and- coming artists in Europe, had me become well known and even a muse for one of Gertrude Stein’s image poems. I reluctantly joined Edwin my husband at the time, who was eager to come back to the United States. I settled in an apartment on the lower Fifth Avenue which most of you have been in for my “evenings” of controversial debates.

"If the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question American. 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 hook because of our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America?" Fannie Lou Hammer before the Democratic National Convention, 1964. Fannie Lou Hamer is best known for her involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC). The SNCC was at the head of the American voter registration drives of the 1960's. Hamer was a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Freedom Party (MFDP), which ultimately succeeded in electing many blacks to national office in the state of Mississippi.

Risking his life just for saying this speech, Herry is very powerful in his delivery of it. He knows that if his idea fails, he and everyone at the convention will be hung for treason. In “Speech in the Virginia Convention”, Patrick Henry used aristotelian appeals and specific stylistical strategies to strengthen the persuasiveness of his argument. He used pathos, logos, and rhetorical question in his speech. His speech was to push for war with Great Britain.

American journalist Clare Boothe Luce writes a speech to the Women’s National Press Club about how the press sacrifices sensationalist stories. Luce’s introduction talks about how the American press is wrong and how she tries to address the problem. She starts off by tells the other journalist how she is happy, but the audience makes her unhappy and challenged. This shows her hard work in writing and how the press lacks in writing true stories.

Sometimes just one person standing up with courage to spread their beliefs change the course of history for the better or worse. As an example, in 1872, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar of Mississippi won a seat in the U.S. Congress. Mr. Lamer was a strong Democratic leader, which his beliefs and desires influence many other white leaders to fight against African-American civil rights. He wrote “It does seem to me that if there ever was a time when the white people of this state…should rise & with one unanimous voice protest against the domination about to be piled upon them the present is that time.” (Fraser, 440). Together, Democratic and white supremacist leaders manipulated the social and political development in the United States by prohibiting

In the year 1898 in the town of Wilmington, North Carolina a riot occurred between the African American inhabitants and the white minority of the city. Several historians accuse the origin of the riot on racism and white supremacy. Although these two beliefs have been around for countless years, and African Americans received the right to vote almost thirty years’ prior, no demonstration nor aggressive threats, to the point in which was seen in 1898, had occurred in Wilmington until that year. The Wilmington Race Riot was the reaction of the “sociopolitical conditions” that were being applied by the Democratic Party to win the election through a sequence of diabolical campaign tactics just like creating partial accusations about the “negroes” of the town thus, creating unconstitutional practices, and threatening their existence.

the speech “With Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer,” Malcolm affirms that because the black man is denied the right to vote in the south of the forty-six committees that had control the foreign and domestic direction of the country in 1964 twenty-three were in the hands of Southern racists. Another account concerning voting in the south, Malcolm

It was a time of conflict, excitement, and confusion in the United States. And this was also “Black Power” of the Civil Rights Movement. Moody at that time was a member of NAACP. She was involved in her first sit-in, and her social science professor, John Salter, who was in charge of NAACP asked her to be the spokesman for a team that would sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter (Moody 1968, 286). Although she could go to jail for this, but she still agreed. After that, she joined CORE and continued to fight for the voting rights (Moody 1968, 311). Following passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, the struggle for racial justice moved to the next battleground: voting rights in the Deep South. The campaign was already under way in places like Selma, Alabama, where local activists, facing intense white resistance, asked Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference for support (Ayers 2010, 780). Black voter registration in the South was one of the great accomplishments of the civil rights movement. Within months of its passage, more than 2 million black southern were registered to vote. Most supported the Democratic Party of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, which had endorsed the cause of civil rights (Ayers 2010, 782).

Prior to the 1960s, rarely was there black representation in Congress. Putting aside for a moment the irony of this in a country that declared its independence under the banner of “no taxation with representation,” this posed a serious issue for the black community.

Mrs. Smith just arrived at the bus stop to take a bus to downtown. She knew that the bus would be coming in an about five minutes. She noticed that a young couple joined her at the bus stop. The woman was wearing a veil, and carrying a hand bag, while the man had nothing peculiar, other than a beard. Mrs. Smith began to be uncomfortable on their presence, as if she were in danger. The few minutes she had to wait for the bus seemed to be eternal. The couple start to talk in a foreign language, what caused to Mrs. Smith to assume they were coffering he details to harm her. This thoughts caused her to sweat, and make her mind began to speed up in an escalating arousal. As the bus was about to arrive, the veiled lady opened the zipper of her handbag to grab the fare. At this moment Mrs. Smith completely lost control of her reactions and tried to grab the women, yelling that it was a terrorist attack.