Powerful African-American Women for 25 Trivia: More...
She was one of the powerful women of the civil rights and voting movement. She lead a delegation to the Democratic Convention in 1964 to protest the seating of an all white delegation from Mississippi. When offered a compromise which would have seated two Black delegates, she replied "We didn't come all the way up here to compromise. We didn't come all the way for no two seats 'cause we are all of us tired". The protest lost but the Convention voted for racial balance in 1968. She told Hubert Humphrey that the democrats would lose as they had turned their backs on the civil rights movement. Who was she?
