Word: mfdp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MFDP will conduct a talk on support for the challenge. Another workshop still discuss the effect of the Administration's voting bill on the civil rights movement...
...Mississippi Highway Patrol yesterday arrested 45 students who had been the Pike County Courthouse days. Mississippi officials filed charges against them and set or date for their arraignment. of the demonstrators are Mississippi high-school students under 13. They decided to picket after the MFDP at which Glen Fortenberry, of Pike County, refused to take test which he administers. were protesting the all-white review board and the use of this test...
...formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was a revolution in itself. For the first time since Reconstruction, Negroes participated in political discussions, political rallies, and political decisions. By the summer's end, 70,000 Negroes had joined the MFDP, even though the mere act of joining often brought danger and harassment. In MFDP precinct meetings, county conventions, and district caucuses, sharecroppers and city laborers stood up and said what they felt...
...work of the summer culminated in the MFDP challenge at the Democratic National Convention, after which most of the volunteers went home. About 250 workers remained in the state to continue the 30-odd local projects that were initiated last June...
...series of legal steps-including public hearing in Mississippi and other parts of the country-will keep the dispute from Congress until late June or early July. Then the MFDP, withe the aid of the student lobbyists, hopes to out the congressmen and thereby compel new Mississippi elections...