Lawrence Guyot Jr. (July 17, 1939 – November 23, 2012) was an American civil rights activist and the director of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964. (wikipedia)
While residents in Maryland's capital city have a vote in Congress, I am leading the fight for residents in the nation's capital to get full voting representation in Congress. The fight continues.
It was a good thing that I was in jail, because there is no way that I could have matched the speech given by Fannie Lou Hamer,
I believe it's our responsibility when we find young, creative people to make their projects our project. I don't think of this as his play; I look at this as our play.
This is unparalleled in Mississippi. This is a new Mississippi,
