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Moses also discussed the challenge which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party plans to bring in January against the seating of three Mississippi congressmen in the House of Representatives. The challenge is being brought in the names of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, Mrs. Victoria Gray, and Mrs. Annie Devine, three Negro Mississippians who ran against the white Congressmen in "Freedom Elections," conducted in November by the Freedom Party...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Moses Attacks Jury Selection System | 12/2/1964 | See Source »

This is the first time the MFDP has appealed its case outside Mississippi. Now Rauh brings the challenge before a nation-wide television audience. He relies primarily on Henry and Mrs. Fanny Lou Hamer's tales of persecution to show that the MFDP is the "loyal, legal, and long-suffering party from Mississippi." To charges that the Party has no legal basis, Rauh replies: "The Negro has been kept out of the Mississippi Democratic Party by terror. I want the nation to know this terror...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

This is the first time the MFDP has appealed its case outside Mississippi. Now Rauh brings the challenge before a nation-wide television audience. He relies primarily on Henry and Mrs. Fanny Lou Hamer's tales of persecution to show that the MFDP is the "loyal, legal, and long-suffering party from Mississippi." To charges that the Party has no legal basis, Rauh replies: "The Negro has been kept out of the Mississippi Democratic Party by terror. I want the nation to know this terror...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...already a member of the five-man commission, as the new chairman, and Cohen was not hurt by his close friendship with White House Special Counsel Myer Feldman. Johnson was also under pressure to pick a careerist to soften criticism of his recent appointment of conservative Republican Hamer Budge, a former Congressman from Idaho with little experience in the securities markets, as an SEC commissioner. To fill the vacancy created by Cohen's promotion, Johnson last week chose a Los Angeles lawyer, Francis M. Wheat, 43, a Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Markets: Career Cop | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...Government spending and public welfare measures, stood with Southern Democrats on civil rights. Now a state judge in Idaho, he admits to being far from expert in finance. These may seem like unusual qualifications for the newest member of the five-man Securities and Exchange Commission, but last week Hamer Harold Budge got the job. President Johnson appointed him, said SEC sources, partly as a political favor to House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, the judge's longtime golfing crony. (The judge calls Halleck "Pop," while Halleck calls him "Son.") He replaces Jack M. Whitney II as the second Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities: Jun. 12, 1964 | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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