Malcolm X was not pleased. The crowd was meager. Fannie Lou Hamer deserved better. She had stopped in Harlem to speak as his guest just months after her instrumental role in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s historic challenge to unseat Mississippi’s all-White, all-male delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Malcolm X was not pleased. The crowd was meager. Fannie Lou Hamer deserved better. She had stopped in Harlem to speak as his guest just months after her instrumental role in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s historic challenge to unseat Mississippi’s all-White, all-male delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
