Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
The remarkable story of how Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired," took her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the 1964 Democratic National Convention to challenge the all-white Mississippi delegation.
Guests
- Eleanor Holmes Norton Delegate, U.S. House of Representatives (D-DC)
- June Johnson Participant, 1964 Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party
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