When Fannie Lou Hamer appeared on national television, the White House reacted with a compromise. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party could attend the convention but they could not vote. Hubert Humphrey asked that the Freedom delegates support Lyndon Johnson. Then the president would work to improve their lives. They would be seated, as a part of a fair delegation, in later conventions. Fannie Lou Hamer refuted his argument—and more.
MPB's Freedom Summer series and documentary are part of a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC). The program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the MHC.
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