carolina, are you next? partisanship and access to the ballot and the right to have your vote counted, they've been on the front burner of our politics for centuries. at the 1964 democratic convention, mrs. fannie lou hamer, a sharecropper turned activist, explained to the democratic party, to their faces, what it was like for her to try to vote in her home state of mississippi. >> it was the involvement in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. we was met in indianola by policemen, highway patrolmen and only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.