In 1964 Mississippi resident Fannie Lou Hamer addresses the Democratic National Convention credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey and demands voting rights for African-Americans.
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Oscar De Priest, the first Black to serve in Congress in the 20th century, was born in Florence, Alabama in 1871.
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