Fannie Lee Hamer's Speech

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Transition. Clara didn’t let her age or resources get in the way of her goals. She earned her own money to pay for her books by sewing and writing letters for neighbor who didn’t know how to read or write.

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention was a stark reminder of just how sizeable the inequalities between white and black individuals were not too long ago. Hearing the ordeal that Mrs. Hamer went through to register as a “first-class” citizen has similarities to the governmental disconnect with black individuals that many of the black feminist intellectuals described in their essays. Of course, things have changed in the years since this speech; however, portions of the same problem remain evident even today.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

The right to vote for African American became difficult during the time because the northern didn’t want to consider the blacks as equal to the society. As Frederick Douglass, has once stated “Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot.” African American fought their way to gain their right to vote is by coming together, free blacks and emancipated slaves, to create parades, petition drives to demand, and to organize their own “freedom ballots.” As a free African American, they except the same respect as the whites and nothing

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

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.

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

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.

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.