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The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question

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On August 22, 1964 , Fannie Lou Hamer , a Black former sharecropper from Sunflower County , Mississippi , delivered one of the most eloquent addresses on race relations ever heard.

Hamer was one of many women who had been at the center of a voter-registration drive in the Deep South since the early 1960s .

In this November 's election, all American voters will get the chance to answer Hamer ’s question.

Julian Zelizer : In the 1960s , civil rights movement was the turning point of civil rights.

He says the compromise revealed how deeply racism was inscribed into America ’s major political institutions.

Zelizer says Kamala Harris and Donald Trump offer stark contrast in terms of political traditions that they represent.

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