Word: fdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hayes Lamont, a research fellow in biology, and signed by Mark De Wolfe Howe, '28, professor of Law, urges its recipients to put pressure on their Congressmen and on the Johnson administration to consider the Notice of Challenge filed with the House of Representatives by members of the FDP...
Lamont's letter cited voter registration requirements which it claimed required Negroes to pass highly personal and exceedingly difficult registration tests. The FDP, after falling to gain a place for its candidates on the bailot, conducted a parallel vote which its candidates won by an overwhelming majority...
...Party had long since slipped from the control of liberal politicians and moderate civil rights leaders. On the boadwalk, the FDP's silent vigil had degenerated into a vitriolic anti-Johnson rally. Jesse Grey, New York rent striker, milled through FDP headquarters at the Gem Hotel, calling for a last-ditch show of defiance...
...interpretations have assumed that the caucus' unwillingness to compromise proved that the Party couldn't fathom the Great American Art of Politics. Perhaps this is a valid indictment, but it ignores the fact that the Party was trying to play not American politics, but Mississippi politics. And, as every FDP pamphlet explains, "Mississippi is like no where else on earth...
...rights groups to emerge over the summer is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Curtis Hessler worked on the initial political foray of the MFDP out of Mississippi in Washington and Atlantic City and found the party occasionally naive, often disorganized. His careful analysis of the lobbying efforts of the FDP leading up to the convention is a remarkable story, one that could not have occured five years...