Fannie Lou Hamer gave her speech on August 22, 1964 at the DNC in Atlantic City. It was not shocking for me that she was targeted by white supremacists major of her life. However, there we many others that loved her for her determination to exercise her voting rights. I found it phenomenal that she she organized Freedom Summer in 1964.This allowed freedom from several blacks, allowing them to register to vote in the segregated South. Lastly, Hamer made an impact as she became the co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, in which is prevented the regional all white Democratic party to mute the African American voice. The party took a stand to ensure there was a party for all people and did not stand for discrimination.

I personally feel like before the Declaration of Independence, that most of these states and questions played a role in U.S. history. It has over all shaped the division between economical wealth and political institutions. It will continue to be a political debate and honestly I don't see any equality amongst the citizens of the United States. It's an obvious contrary between the Declaration of Independence and the institution of slavery.

Washington and DuBois were newly freed slaves who took upon this burden of carrying and trying to mentally free other African Americans. Unfortunately, these two men were only viewed as property. Though these two leaders had different proposals as to how African Americans could escape their current situation. The two men were not going to give up until their black community "made it out". During Booker T. Washington's childhood he experienced slavery first hand, this is when he began to realize the importance of education. He later attended Hampton Institute where he soon felt the effects of segregation in the educational system between black and whites. This experience resulted in him becoming an educator himself. He then advocated that African American stood up and fought for change, which included their rights to vote in order to gain some type of security for themselves and the generations to come. W.E.B. DuBois had a completely different upbringing as he was free and not have to experience the unforeseen circumstances of those in the southern states. DuBois later became the first African American to receive his doctorate from Harvard University. The biggest disagree between these two leaders is that DuBois did not think that uneducated blacks needed to vote, which I think is outrageous.That is honestly the largest thing that bothered me throughout this learning. Even though there were plenty of differences there was one thing that they agreed on which was violence against blacks including lynching. This was a great read and refresher about these two phenomenal African American leaders.