Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election is seen not only as a defeat for Negroes and the MFDP, but also as a victory for NAACP leader Charles Evers, who has been described as Mississippi's "Tammany boss...
...indoctrination session, the 62 student will disperse and work in a number of counties where Negro candidates stand a good chance of winning, a spokesman for LSCRRC explained. The largest contingent will go to Holmes Country, said to be a stronghold of the Mississippi Free Democratic Party (MFDP), the party which challenged the allwhite delegation to the 1964 Democratic Convention...
...Thomas '66 said last night demonstration had been "a protest against the police judicial processes" in Miss. Thomas has been for COFO and the MFDP in since last summer...
...MFDP itself is a product of SNCC's belief in the necessity for basic changes in the society. Instead of just organizing locally, SNCC helped to build a state-wide third party, which would provide a liberal alternative to the rigid segregationist policies of both major parties in Mississippi. Currently the MFDP is challenging the recent Congressional elections in Mississippi...
Furthermore, SCLC does not think it necessary to organize a third political party, like the MFDP, believing that a county organization but the ministers were enough. "We're not interested whether they vote Democratic or publican," Williams said Saturday. "Myself, I just vote for who ever is ahead in civil rights...