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Word: fdp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FDP itself has little electoral support, he said. Until more voters are registered, the FDP cannot hope to win a majority, and can safely be ignored by the established Southern leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carter Describes South As 'Symbol of Horror' | 10/19/1965 | See Source »

...More FDP supporters had arrived by lunchtime. When the convention reconvened, a motion was made to censure Frazier for his conduct during the morning and to remove him as chairman of the convention. Hodding Carter then stood up and asked all "true" YDs to follow him downstairs to a "true Young Democratic state convention." He, Cleveland Donald, and the MDC faction, in all about a third of the group, walked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Fight | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...moderate MDC coalition will insist that to charter the FDP group would be to commit political suicide in Mississippi, where the bulk of the political power is white. The coalition will point out that voters think of the FDP as radical (if not communist), and there would be little hope of organizing an effective YD club around an FDP core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Fight | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...FDP will insist, on the other hand, that whites who would not join the virtually all-Negro FDP group will not join the integrated MDC group either. And right now it is probably true that even the more moderate faction would fail to attract the kind of white support that provides eager campaign help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Fight | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

However, given the political direction of the FDP, it doesnt seem likely that whites will ever agree to join it. Young Democrats organized around the bi-racial MDC coalition would provide at least the working beginnings of a new Democratic Party in Mississippi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Fight | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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