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...vote on the FDP challenge is expected to reach the floor of the House early in July. SNCC, which plans to send 2000 students to Washington this summer to lobby for the FDP, estimates that the Freedom party commands over two-thirds of the votes necessary to defeat the regular congressional delegation...
...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...
...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...