Word: guyot
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...Mississippi situation is more muddled. There is now a 50-50 chance that there will be two challenging delegations from the state. Lawrence Guyot, head of the militant Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which staged the '64 challenge, has vowed to send another mostly Negro delegation to Chicago. Rauh, however, is working this time with Negroes and white moderates associated mainly with the Mississippi Young Democrates and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Lawrence Guyot, head of the Freedom Democratic Party, which backed and organized the independent Negroes' campaign, attributed the defeat to irregularities in the voting procedure...
Thus, though Mississippi now has 117,500 new Negro voters, many of them regard the F.D.P. as too radical, and only two of its candidates are given any chance of election. The strongest challengers are Lawrence Guyot, 26, F.D.P. Mississippi chairman, who filed as an opponent against Congressman William Colmer, 76, and the Rev. Edwin King, 30, a white chaplain at predominantly Negro Tougaloo College, who is taking on Representative John Bell Williams...