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...applicants is made up of members and supporters of the virtually all-Negro Freedom Democratic Party (FDP). The other consists mainly of representatives from college Young Democratic clubs in the state who are supported by the Mississippi Democratic Conference (MDC)--a bi-racial coalition of NAACP, organized labor (AFL-CIO), and white moderates who fear the FDP...
...August 1964, at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City, the FDP group made its first try for a charter. Many members of the YD National Committee felt the Mississippians should be recognized; but the Committee rejected the FDP-backed petition on the grounds that it did not have validating signatures from any of the state's three Senior Party officials. The applicants protested that the Senior Party State Chairman had not supported the Democratic presidential nominee in the preceeding national election; they said, therefore, that they were not required to get the signatures...
Johnny Frazier, chairman of the Greenville NAACP, was elected convention chairman. The MDC group then moved to elect co-chairmen, although the proposed constitution called for the election of a state president. A confused debate followed, during which the FDP group charged that previous understandings were being broken, that electing officers before the hearing of committee reports or the adoption of the constitution was out of order, and that many delegates driving to the convention would not arrive till the afternoon session...
...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...
...simply decided that example is the best sermon. Rather than talk about the evils of racial prejudice, he took a seat on the first freedom ride and ended up in jail. He was one of the most effective recruiters for Aaron Henry's 1963 FDP campaign in Mississippi. When Russian studies professor Frederick C. Barghoorn was detained in Russia, he organized the protest...