Word: fdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late August, however, the movement reasserted itself. Emerging from Mississippi, the Freedom Democratic Party (FDP) rocked the Democratic Convention, engaged the attention of a huge television audience, and reelicted from white liberals the phrases and fervor so quickly forgotten a short month earlier...
Many histories of the FDP's convention challenge should be written. The challenge was simultaneously a watershed in the history of Mississippi, a crisis-point in the history of the civil rights movement, and a significant footnote to the history of the Democratic Party. However, as a white Northerner working sporadically for the FDP in Washington and Atlantic City, I could see the unfolding convention challenge only as a case study in political lobbying and public relations...
Formally created on April 26, 1964 the Party began taking shape in June, with the influx of Freedom Summer volunteers. At this stage many of the FDP's Northern friends worried at its sluggishness in building an active organization and constituency. During one June visit to Washington Aaron Henry, NAACP chief in Mississippi and eventual spokesman for the Party, became angry with the impatience of his young Northern supporters: "All you consider is politics and this party thing. We're handling a couple hundred community centers at once down there. We'll cross the political bridge if and when...
...Free Democrats, who have five seats in Adenauer's Cabinet, caucused in Niirnberg last week and voted overwhelmingly to withdraw from the government coalition. Dapper FDP Chairman Erich
After the war, Mende studied law and political science, earning the doctorate dear to middle-class Germans. He strayed into politics almost by accident in 1945, when one of FDP's founders recruited him for party chores. Mende's eloquence and organizational ability propelled him rapidly to the party's top echelons. Though the Free Democrats pose as successors to the old German liberal parties, Erich Mende is by instinct and outlook a conservative who has turned to good advantage his distaste for extremes. By contrast, the party leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals...