July 11, 1960 Johnson Acceptance Speech. At the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1960 Democratic Vice President Candidate delivered hi… ...

It’s become an election year ritual: Every time the Left protests at the Democratic National Convention, we hear the comparisons to 1968, the year that tensions over the Vietnam War caused chaos ...

Sias wears a dress emblazoned with the words of Hamer, who challenged the seating of Mississippi’s all-White delegation at the 1964 Democratic convention. Silas reflected on the greater arc of ...

A collection of photographs from the 1964 Democratic National Convention on display inside the "I Question America" exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in ...

Wil Colom, a Mississippi lawyer who now serves on the Democratic National Committee and is in Chicago for the convention, was a teenager when he heard Hamer speak at a church in Ripley ...

Rev. Edwin King, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Annie Devine, co-founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, are seated with the Michigan Delegation at the 1964 Democratic Convention.

Waters, 86, told the story of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black activist from Mississippi who fought for a seat at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She brought the moment full circle to Harris ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964 ...