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Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her speech 60 years ago: ‘Is this America?’

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The first Mississippi Freedom Trail marker outside the state was unveiled Tuesday in Atlantic City, commemorating Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Democrats who challenged an all-white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. (AP Video by Stephen Smith and Ted Shaffrey)

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