 People realized there was a way out of the lives they had been living in for so long.She explained that the way out of that life would be through "the execution of the vote" and getting representation.In an interview with the Virginia Organizing Project, she says, "We were going in the face of the Mississippi Democratic Party, which included some of the most powerful members of the U.S. Congress, to demand that we be recognized to have representation at the Democratic National Convention."