CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 1, 2015
Her. A light anything but ordinary. She endured harassment and physical threats. Despite all that, she registered to vote. And for that, she lost her job. Then she helped others register to vote. And for that, she was arrested, and severely beaten to death on the jailhouse cell floor. By cheap but she pressed on. She became one of the founders, one of the leaders of the mississippi freedom democratic party. [cheering] they came to the Democratic Convention in 1964 to protest the disenfranchisement of African Americans and the absence of any blacks in the mississippi delegation. There before mi...
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