FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964, as her racially integrated group challenged the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation. (AP Photo, File)A collection of photographs from the 1964 Democratic National Convention on display inside the "I Question America" exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)Numerous civil rights activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum's central gallery, including Fannie Lou Hamer, highlight the "This Little Light of Mine" exhibit on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)A life-size standee of Fannie Lou Hamer points to the "I Question America" is shown in an exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)Information about the 1963 beating of civil rights activists at a jail in Winona, Miss., is shown in an exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wears a commemorative pin with the face of a young Civil Rights activist Euvester Simpson, June 8, 2024, in Winona, Miss., during the unveiling of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating the brutality faced by her and other civil rights activists who were arrested in June 1963, at a bus station in Winona as they returned from an out-of-state citizenship training session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Roy DeBerry of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee stands outside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, where he protested as a teenager when the Democratic National Convention was held at the hall in 1964. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Elected officials and civil rights advocates unveil a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. From left: Tiyi Morris, daughter of civil rights advocate Euvestor Simpson; John Spann, Mississippi Humanities Council; Freedom Democrat Dave Dennis Sr.; Roy DeBerry of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves; Ralph Hunter of the The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey; Tahesha Way, New Jersey Lieutenant Governor; Marty Small, Mayor of Atlantic City and Kaleem Shabazz, Atlantic City councilman. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Roy DeBerry of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee points to a photo of himself as a teenager on the newly unveiled Mississippi Freedom Trail marker on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, August 20, 2024. DeBerry was part of a racially-integrated group protesting the seating of an all-white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention at the location. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., shows artwork, completed by Elementary School students, from his office on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Bolton, Miss. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)A newly unveiled Mississippi Freedom Trail marker on the boardwalk in front of Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, commemorates Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, whose speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention mesmerized the nation. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Leslie-Burl McLemore, a retired Jackson State University political science professor and longtime civil rights activist, speaks July 10, 2024, at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Euvester Simpson speaks with U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., June 8, 2024, in Winona, Miss., during the unveiling of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating the brutality faced by her and other civil rights activists who were arrested in June 1963, at a bus station in Winona as they returned from an out-of-state citizenship training session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)An attendee takes a cell phone photo, June 8, 2024, following the unveiling in Winona, Miss., of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating the brutality faced by Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists who were arrested in June 1963, at a bus station in Winona as they returned from an out-of-state citizenship training session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Euvester Simpson speaks June 8, 2024, in Winona, Miss., during the unveiling of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating the brutality faced by her and other civil rights activists who were arrested in June 1963, at a bus station in Winona, as they returned from an out-of-state citizenship training session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)David J. Dennis Sr., a longtime activist in the Civil Rights Movement, speaks June 14, 2024, in Philadelphia, Miss., after the unveiling of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating the June 1964 murders of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)FILE - A statue of the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is displayed in a memorial garden in her hometown of Ruleville, Miss., on Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964, as her racially integrated group challenged the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation. (AP Photo, File)
