Malcolm X notes in his ‘Ballot or the Bullet’ speech, “I’m not trying to knock out the Democrats for the Republicans. We’ll get to them in a minute. But it’s true; you put the Democrats first, and the Democrats put you last.” Black sharecropper and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hammer gives an impassioned plea for black voting rights at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City representing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Under political pressure, the Civil Rights Act is passed that year, followed by the Voting Rights Act the following year, helping to legally dismantle Jim Crow.