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The 2024 Democratic Convention: More 1964 Than 1968

Liza Featherstone Convergence
The media kept comparing this year’s DNC to Chicago 1968. But given the party’s rejection of the Uncommitted movement, Atlantic City 1964, when Democrats refused to seat Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, is more apt.

Say It to My Face

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
How Democrats learned to tell the plain truth and like it

State of the South: Voting Rights Under Assault Report

Southern Coalition for Social Justice Southern Coalition for Social Justice
This Report documents how voters of color, young voters and those with disabilities have been targeted with repressive laws and policies that undermine the hard-fought progress secured during the Civil Rights era.
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