Hamer was a leader of the racially integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which was fighting to be seated at the 1964 convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in place of the all-white ...

In 1964, over 700 volunteers from across ... OH to canvassing the towns of Mississippi to campaigning at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ.

In 1964, when Atlantic City hosted the DNC convention ... grant her integrated delegation seats at that year's convention. "If the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America ...