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 ...

CHICAGO — This is a very different Democratic National Convention than the one delegates had anticipated just a few weeks ago when President Joe Biden was at the top of the ticket. But the ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

US President Joe Biden speaks on stage on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC ... the late civil rights activist who gave a landmark speech at a Democratic convention in 1964.

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 ...

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 ...