1964 MS Freedom Democrat Delegates Share story of Atlantic City DNC Convention at Stockton

 


ATLANTIC CITY -- For David Dennis, a chance for the United States to stand up against racism in politics did not come with the election of Barack Obama in 2008 or a chance to elect Kamala Harris in November but 1964 in Atlantic City.

What is referred to as Freedom Summer, reached an apex during the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City with the racially mixed Mississippi Freedom Democrats, led by iconic civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, were refused seats at the convention in favor of an all-white delegation.

Some of those delegates spoke at Stockton University in Atlantic City on Tuesday, Aug. 20 during the 60th anniversary of that tumultuous political convention, to talk about what happened then and the parallels they see in today's political climate.

"America missed a golden opportunity," David Dennis Sr., a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, said to a crowd in the Fannie Lou Hamer Room at Stockton's Atlantic City campus. "The people of Mississippi, inside and outside of [Boardwalk Hall] believed in his country.

"They followed the runes and these college students who came, they honestly believed in the process. They believed if you put this out in front of the American people, that they would turn their backs on this government and say, 'no.'"

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